commant

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French

Participle

commant

  1. present participle of commer

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin commentum.

Pronunciation

Noun

commant n

  1. alliance, pact, union, friendship
    • 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. 78b11
      Ro·bói commant n-etarru du denum uilc fri mmaccu Israhel.
      There was a covenant between them to do evil to the sons of Israel.
  2. company, band
  3. (later) love, affection

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative commantN commantN commantL, commanda
Vocative commantN commantN commantL, commanda
Accusative commantN commantN commantL, commanda
Genitive commaindL commant commantN
Dative commundL commandaib commandaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: commond

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
commant chommant commant
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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