comsuidigud
Old Irish
FWOTD – 9 April 2025
Etymology
From com- (“together”) + suidigud (“putting, placing”), a calque of Latin compositiō, itself a calque of Ancient Greek σύνθεσις (súnthesis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkoβ̃huðʲiɣuð]
Noun
comṡuidigud m (genitive comṡuidigtheo)
- verbal noun of con·suidigedar
- (linguistics) compounding, composition (formation of compound words from separate words)
- 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. 159a3
- Is airi ní táet comṡuidigud fri rangabáil, húare as coibnesta do bréthir: ar is lour comṡuidigud fri suidi, air bid comṡuidigud etarscartha comṡuidigud rangabálae.
- This is why composition does not occur with a participle, because it is akin to a verb: for composition with the latter is sufficient, for composition of a participle will be separated composition.
- 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. 159a3
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | comsuidigud | — | — |
| vocative | comsuidigud | — | — |
| accusative | comsuidigudN | — | — |
| genitive | comṡuidigtheoH, comṡuidigtheaH | — | — |
| dative | comsuidigudL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Related terms
Descendants
- Irish: comhshuí
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| comsuidigud | chomsuidigud | comsuidigud pronounced with /ɡ-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comṡuidigud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language