adcosnai
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ad- + com- + sníid (“to contend, struggle”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]ad·cosnai (prototonic ·ascnai, verbal noun ascnam)
For quotations using this term, see Citations:adcosnai.
Conjugation
[edit]Complex, class A III 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·cosnat | |||||||
| Prot. | ·ascnai | ·ascnam | |||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ad·cosnainn | ad·cosnaitis | ad·cosantae | |||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Preterite | Deut. | ad·chosain | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ad·ruchoisséni | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ad·cosnae | ad·cosna | ||||||
| Prot. | ·ascnae | ||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ad·cosnainn | ad·cosnaitis | ad·cosantae | |||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperative | ascnam | ||||||||
| Verbal noun | ascnam | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Irish: ascain (“to proceed towards”)
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| ad·cosnai | ad·chosnai | ad·cosnai pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ad·cosnai”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 634