adcumaing
Old Irish
Verb
ad·cumaing (prototonic ·ecmaing)
For quotations using this term, see Citations:adcumaing.
Usage notes
- The prototonic third-person singular present is commonly used in absolute position to introduce an event that happened, regardless of whether the event happened in the present or past, even when normally the deuterotonic would be used there.
- In the sense "happen to be", the subject is encoded as an infixed object pronoun.
Inflection
For the preterite, an s-preterite is used in the sense “to strike”, while in the sense “to happen”, reduplicated preterites tend to be used. Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Derived terms
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) | ad·chumaing | Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ad-cumaing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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