conmesca

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- +‎ mescaid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈmʲeska/

Verb

con·mesca (verbal noun cummasc)

1. to mix
   • c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 90, pages 115-179:

     Treide nad conairiti tol dé: maith ara cummiscther olc [...]

     Three things that are not pleasing to God: good that is mixed with evil, [...]

   • 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. 61^a14

     ɔ·mescatar da cenél indib

     Two genders are mixed within them.

Inflection

Complex, class A I present, s preterite

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			cot·mesca			con·mescat		con·mescatar
	Prot.							·cummiscther
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			cot·ámaisc
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		cummasc
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of conmesca

radical	lenition	nasalization
com·mesca also com·mmesca	com·mesca pronounced with /-β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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), “conmesca”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language