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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *komentus, essentially *kom- (“with”) +‎ *em- (“to take”) +‎ *-tus (noun forming suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

comét m (genitive cométa)

  1. verbal noun of con·ói: keeping, guarding, preservation
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 112b20
      aingil dæ bete oc comet ind fír fírioín
      the angels of God who will be guarding the righteous man

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
singular dual plural
nominative comét — —
vocative comét — —
accusative cométN — —
genitive cométoH, cométaH — —
dative cométL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: comét

Mutation

Mutation of comét
radical lenition nasalization
comét chomét comét
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 729, page 450f.; reprinted 2017

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