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Old Irish
Etymology
A hapax legomenon only found once in the folk-etymological glossary Sanas Cormaic, made c. 900. From Proto-Celtic *komknāyeti (“to chew”), a compound of *kom- + *knāyeti (“to gnaw”). Cognate with Welsh cynghnoi (“to chew”).[1]
Verb
con·cná (verbal noun cocnam)
- (hapax) to chew
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from Bodleian MS Laud 610, Corm. La 2
Con·cná in fili mír do charnu dirg muice ł chon no chaitt ⁊ da·bir iarum for licc iar cul na comlad ⁊ di·chain dichetal fair...- The poet chews on a piece of flesh from a red pig, a dog, or a cat, and puts it afterwards on the flag behind the door, and recites an incantation on it...
Inflection
Complex, class A III present
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cocnam
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Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of concná
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con·chná
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con·cná
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
- ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “*knā-i̯e/o-”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 418
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