conosna

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Old Irish

Etymology

From com- +‎ uss- +‎ anaid (to stay).

Verb

con·osna (prototonic ·cumsana, verbal noun cumsanad)

  1. to cease, stop, end
    • 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. 80d5
      cumsanfaglossing Latin non desistet (will not stop)
    • 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. 206a3
      Air cheso i n-.us. con·osna són, ní i n-.um. do·gní a neutur.
      Although ends in -us, it does not make its neuter with -um.

Inflection

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
con·osna
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged con·n-osna
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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