comarbus

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Old Irish

Etymology

From comarbbae (“heir, successor”) (from Proto-Celtic *kom- + *orbos (“heir, inheritor”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- (“to change ownership”)) + -us.

Pronunciation

Noun

comarbus m (genitive comarpsa, no plural)

  1. heritage, inheritance, patrimony
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9a14
      Bed a{d}thramli .i. gaibid comarbus for n-athar et intamlid a béssu.
      Be pl fatherlike, i.e. take your father’s heritage and imitate his manners

Declension

Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative comarbus — —
Vocative comarbus — —
Accusative comarbusN — —
Genitive comarpsoH, comarpsaH — —
Dative comarbusL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: comharbas

Mutation

Mutation of comarbus
radical lenition nasalization
comarbus chomarbus comarbus
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.

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