conicc
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]con·icc (prototonic ·cumaic or ·cumaing, verbal noun cumang or cumacc)
- to be able to, can
- Synonym: ro-
- to have power over
For quotations using this term, see Citations:conicc.
Usage notes
[edit]Con·icc can be used to indicate ability or potential to perform another action in two principal ways.
- The most common method is to represent the other action as an accusative verbal noun.
- Con·icid mo chobair. ― You pl can help me. (literally, “You pl have power over helping me.”)
- Another less common method is to represent the other action as a nasalized subjunctive relative clause. The person and number conjugation of con·icc and the other verb must agree.
- Iss ed inso nád chumaing ara·n-ísar and. ― This is what cannot be found there. (literally, “This is what does not have power that it may be found there.”)
Conjugation
[edit]Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, f future, s subjunctive
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “con-icc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂neḱ-
- Old Irish terms prefixed with com-
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish verbs
- Old Irish terms with usage examples
- Old Irish complex verbs
- Old Irish class B I present verbs
- Old Irish reduplicated preterite verbs
- Old Irish f future verbs
- Old Irish s subjunctive verbs