conoscaigi

Old Irish

Etymology

com- +‎ uss- +‎ scuichid

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [konˈoskɨɣʲi]

Verb

con·oscaigi (verbal noun cumscugud)

1. to move
2. to change, alter
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 109^d5

     Ní taít Día fo tairṅgere conid·chumscaiged.

     God does not come under a promise that he should alter it.

Conjugation

Complex, class A II present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.						ɔ·oisciget	ɔ·oscaigther, conn·oscaigther
	prot.						·cumsciget	·cumscaigther, ·cumscichther, ·cumscigther
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.			ɔ·oscaig					con·oscaigter
	prot.
perfect	deut.		con·roscaigis	con·roscaig				ɔ·roscaiged
	prot.							·comarscaiged
future	deut.		conn·oscaigfe
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.	cotamm·oscaig (with infixed pronoun dom-)	con·oscaige				con·oscaiget, con·oschiget	cot·oscaigther (with infixed pronoun t-)
	prot.						·cumsciget
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.			·cumscaiged
imperative
verbal noun		cumscugud
past participle		cumscaigthe, cumscaichte
verbal of necessity		cumscaichthi

Derived terms

• conid·chumscaiged

Descendants

• Irish: cumhscaigh

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “con-oscaigi”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 813.2, pages 617–618