comroircnech

Old Irish

Etymology

From comrorcun (“error, mistake”) (from con·rerortatar (“they have made a mistake”), from the root of orcaid (“to kill”)), + -ach (adjective).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈkoβ̃rorʲɡʲnʲex]

Adjective

comroircnech

erroneous
- 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. 26^b7
  De dliguth trá inna n-il-toimdden sin, is de gaibthi “igitur”; quasi dixisset “Ní fail ní nád taí mo dligeth-sa fair i ndegaid na comroircnech.”
  Of the law then, of those many opinions, it is thereof that he recites “igitur”; as if he had said, “There is nothing which my law does not touch upon after the erroneous ones.

Declension

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	comroircnech	comroircnech	comroircnech
Vocative	comroircnig* comroircnech**	comroircnech
Accusative	comroircnech	comroircnig
Genitive	comroircnig	comroircnige	comroircnig
Dative	comroircnech	comroircnig	comroircnech
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	comroircnig	comroircnecha
Vocative	comroircnechu comroircnecha†
Accusative	comroircnechu comroircnecha†
Genitive	comroircnech
Dative	comroircnechaib
Notes	modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative *modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

Mutation

Mutation of *comroircnech*
radical	lenition	nasalization
comroircnech	chomroircnech	comroircnech 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.