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Old Irish
Etymology
From com- + uss- + anaid (“to stay”).
Verb
con·osna (prototonic ·cumsana, verbal noun cumsanad)
- 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
- ní cumsanfa ― glossing 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
Complex, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive
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con·osna
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·cumsana
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·cumsanus
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con·rosan
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·cumsanfa
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con·osnai
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con·osnaitis
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cumsanad
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| Past participle
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Mutation
Mutation of conosna
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con·osna
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con·n-osna
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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.
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