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Old Irish
Etymology
From com- + to- + ar- + uss- + the root of reithid,[1] from Proto-Celtic *reteti, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂-.
Pronunciation
Noun
comthururas n
- incursion, attack
- 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. 56a22
Nacham·indarbanar-sa fo chomt⟨h⟩ururasib inna ndíummassach.- Let me not be expelled under the incursions of the proud.
Declension
There is no direct evidence of the gender; the assignment as neuter is due to Thurneysen’s suggestion[2] that it belongs to the same class of verbal nouns as mrath and dermat.
Mutation
Mutation of comthururas
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nasalization
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| comthururas
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chomthururas
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comthururas
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 823, page 497; reprinted 2017
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 737, page 455; reprinted 2017
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