comman

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of co (“so that, that”) and unattested *ban (first-person plural present subjunctive of the copula). As co triggers eclipsis, the /b/ of *ban is nasalized to /mb/, here simplified to /m/.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈman/

Verb

co·mman

1. that we may be
   • 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. 31^c11

     mad in chrud so bemmi .i. co comalnammar a pridchimme et co·mman dessimrecht do chách

     if this is how we will be, i.e. that we may fulfill what we preach and may be an example to everyone

Yola

Noun

comman

1. Alternative form of commaun

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 31