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Old Irish
Etymology
From com- + gníid.
Pronunciation
Verb
con·gní (verbal noun cungnum or conggnam)
- to help, to assist
- Synonyms: fo·reith, for·tét, cobraithir
- 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. 14c42
.i. con·gniam fribsi oc táircud raith spirito dúib, coni[d] hed fod·era fáilti dúibsi et dúnni.- We work with you in preparing spiritual grace for you, so that this causes joy unto you and us.
- 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. 114b18
.i. nad·fil nech con·gne fris ón acht Día.- i.e. there is nobody to help him but God.
Inflection
Complex, class A III present, é future, e subjunctive
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con·gníam
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con·géna
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con·gné, cun·gné
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con·gné, cun·gné; con·acna (ad-form)
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cungnum, conggnam
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Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “con·gní”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 541