tochomracht

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Old Irish

Etymology

With to- +‎ com-. See timthirecht for the origin of the -racht.

Noun

tochomracht f

  1. verbal noun of ton·comrit: weariness, distress
    • 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. 14b24
      .i. ropo tochomracht linn buid i mbethu, ut mori omni disiderio cuperemus.
      i.e. it seemed to us a weariness to be in life, so we have been longing for death to all by despair.
    • Compert Con Culainn, published in Compert Con Culainn and other stories (1933, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), page 3, edited by Anton Gerard van Hamel
      Ba tochomracht la hUltu a n-aicsiu oc collud a n-írenn.
      It was distressing to the Ulstermen to see the destruction of their land .

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative tochomrachtL
Vocative tochomrachtL
Accusative tochomrachtN
Genitive tochomrachtaeH
Dative tochomrachtL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of tochomracht
radical lenition nasalization
tochomracht thochomracht tochomracht
pronounced with /d(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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