comthururas

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- +‎ to- +‎ ar- +‎ uss- + the root of reithid,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *reteti, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈkoβ̃θururas]

Noun

comthururas n

incursion, attack
- 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. 56^a22
  Nacham·indarbanar-sa fo chomt⟨h⟩ururasib inna ndíummassach.
  Let me not be expelled under the incursions of the proud.

Declension

There is no direct evidence of the gender; the assignment as neuter is due to Thurneysen’s suggestion^[2] that it belongs to the same class of verbal nouns as mrath and dermat.

Neuter o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	comthururas^N	comthururas^N	comthururas^L, comthururasa
vocative	comthururas^N	comthururas^N	comthururas^L, comthururasa
accusative	comthururas^N	comthururas^N	comthururas^L, comthururasa
genitive	comthururais^L	comthururas	comthururas^N
dative	comthururus^L	comthururasaib, comthururasib	comthururasaib, comthururasib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of *comthururas*
radical	lenition	nasalization
comthururas	chomthururas	comthururas pronounced with /ɡ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 823, page 497; reprinted 2017
^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 737, page 455; reprinted 2017