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Old Irish
Etymology
Literally "is remembered by". The middle term cuman, which is used nowhere else in Old Irish, is generally connected to Welsh cof (“memory”).[1]
Verb
is cuman la
- to remember
- 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. 124b5
.i. nírbu chuman leu a nd·rigni Dia friu i n-Ægipt di maith.- i.e. they had not remembered all the good that God had done to them in Egypt.
Usage notes
The la indicates the person who is remembering, while whatever is remembered follows this entire construction as the copular subject.
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