comarbus

Old Irish

Etymology

From comarbbae (“heir, successor”) (from Proto-Celtic *kom- + *orbos (“heir, inheritor”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- (“to change ownership”)) + -us.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoβ̃arbus]

Noun

comarbus m (genitive comarpsa, no plural)

1. heritage, inheritance, patrimony
   • 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. 9^a14

     Bed a{d}thramli .i. gaibid comarbus for n-athar et intamlid a béssu.

     Be pl fatherlike, i.e. take your father’s heritage and imitate his manners

Declension

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	comarbus	—	—
Vocative	comarbus	—	—
Accusative	comarbusN	—	—
Genitive	comarpsoH, comarpsaH	—	—
Dative	comarbusL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: comharbas

Mutation

Mutation of comarbus

radical	lenition	nasalization
comarbus	chomarbus	comarbus 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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comarbus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language