cumung

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Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Celtic *komangus (compare Welsh cyfyng), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (beside, near, by, with) + *h₂enǵʰ- (tight, painfully constricted).[1]

Adjective

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cumung

  1. narrow, constricted, close, compressed, restricted, constrained
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 16a12
      .i. is cumung fuirib-si immurgu occa nairitin na forcetal-sin.
      You are constrained, however, in receiving those teachings.
    • 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. 6a17
      .i. tim[m]thastaib nó cumcaib
      compressed or constricted (glossing Latin fixis)
Declension
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u-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative cumung cumung cumung
Vocative cumung
Accusative cumung cumuing
Genitive cumuing cumgae cumuing
Dative cumung cumuing cumung
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative cumgai cumgai
Vocative cumgai
Accusative cumgai
Genitive *
Dative cumgaib
Notes *not attested in Old Irish; same as nominative singular masculine in Middle Irish
Descendants
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  • Middle Irish: cumang

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kom-angu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 214

Further reading

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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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cumung

  1. dative singular of cumang

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
cumung chumung cumung
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.