comroircnech

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Old Irish

Etymology

From comrorcun (“error, mistake”) (from con·rerortatar (“they have made a mistake”), from the root of orcaid (“to kill”)), + -ach (adjective).

Pronunciation

Adjective

comroircnech

  1. erroneous
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 26b7
      De dliguth trá inna n-il-toimdden sin, is de gaibthi “igitur”; quasi dixisset “Ní fail ní nád taí mo dligeth-sa fair i ndegaid na comroircnech.”
      Of the law then, of those many opinions, it is thereof that he recites “igitur”; as if he had said, “There is nothing which my law does not touch upon after the erroneous ones.

Declension

o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative comroircnech comroircnech comroircnech
Vocative comroircnig*
comroircnech**
Accusative comroircnech comroircnig
Genitive comroircnig comroircnige comroircnig
Dative comroircnech comroircnig comroircnech
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative comroircnig comroircnecha
Vocative comroircnechu
comroircnecha†
Accusative comroircnechu
comroircnecha†
Genitive comroircnech
Dative comroircnechaib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Mutation

Mutation of comroircnech
radical lenition nasalization
comroircnech chomroircnech comroircnech
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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