immcomairc

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Old Irish

Etymology

imm- +‎ com- + Proto-Celtic *ɸarsketi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /imˈkoβ̃ərʲkʲ/,

Verb

imm·comairc (verbal noun imchomarc)

  1. to ask (with do often indicating the person who was asked)
    Synonym: íarmi·foich
    • 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. 197b10
      frecre do neoch imme·chomarcar duit
      an answer to what you were asked
    • c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-I 573
      A lláa n-aili, imchomrac araile fer dona druidib cid día maith a lláai-sin.
      That other day, a certain man asked the druids what that day was good for.
    • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 1059
      Math i ré immid·comairc. Senchán eges Erend uile ind-so.
      (when a group of poets is asked by a woman to identify themselves) Good are those you asked. Senchán, Poet of all Ireland.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. immid·comairc imme·chomairc (relative) imme·chomarcar (relative) imme·chomarcatar
prot.
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut.
prot.
perfect deut. im·roichomairc
prot.
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut.
prot.
past subjunctive deut. imme·chomairsed
prot.
imperative imchomarcad imchomarcam
verbal noun imchomarc
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of immcomairc
radical lenition nasalization
imm·comairc imm·chomairc imm·comairc
pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/

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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