conmesca

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- +‎ mescaid.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /konˈmʲeska/

Verb

con·mesca (verbal noun cummasc)

to mix
- c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 90, pages 115-179:
  Treide nad conairiti tol dé: maith ara cummiscther olc [...]
  Three things that are not pleasing to God: good that is mixed with evil, [...]
- 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. 61^a14
  ɔ·mescatar da cenél indib
  Two genders are mixed within them.

Inflection

Complex, class A I present, s preterite
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	singular	plural
present indicative	deut.			cot·mesca			con·mescat		con·mescatar
present indicative	prot.							·cummiscther

imperfect indicative	deut.
imperfect indicative	prot.

preterite	deut.
preterite	prot.

perfect	deut.			cot·ámaisc
perfect	prot.

future	deut.
future	prot.

conditional	deut.
conditional	prot.

present subjunctive	deut.
present subjunctive	prot.

past subjunctive	deut.
past subjunctive	prot.

imperative

verbal noun		cummasc
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of *con·mesca*
radical	lenition	nasalization
con·mesca also con·mmesca	con·mesca pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/	con·mesca also con·mmesca

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), “conmesca”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language