adcobra
Old Irish
Etymology
From ad- + Proto-Celtic *kubreti (“wish”) (compare Gaulish cobro-), from Proto-Indo-European *kwep- (“wish”). Cognate with Latin cupiō (“wish”), Sanskrit कुप्यति (kupyati, “be moved, excited, agitated”), Old Church Slavonic кꙑпѣти (kypěti, “to boil”), Lithuanian kūpė́ti (“to boil”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aðˈkovra/
Conjugation
Complex, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Deut. | ad·cobraim | ad·cobrai | ad·cobra; asin·chobra (with infixed pronoun in-) | ad·cobrat | ||||
| Prot. | ·accobri | ·accobra | |||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ad·cobrinn | ad·cobrad, ath·cobrad | ||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Preterite | Deut. | ad·cobair | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ad·rochabair | ad·rochobursam | ||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ad·cobra | ad·cobrat | ||||||
| Prot. | ·accobra | ||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ad·cobrinn | ad·cobrad | ||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | accobar | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| ad·cobra | ad·chobra | ad·cobra pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 25
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ad·cobra”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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