conosna

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- +‎ uss- +‎ anaid (“to stay”).

Verb

con·osna (prototonic ·cumsana, verbal noun cumsanad)

1. to cease, stop, end
   • 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. 80^d5

     ní cumsanfa ― glossing Latin non desistet (“will not stop”)

   • 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. 206^a3

     Air cheso i n-.us. con·osna són, ní i n-.um. do·gní a neutur.

     Although [Latin alius] ends in -us, it does not make its neuter [i.e. aliud] with -um.

Inflection

Complex, class A I 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.			con·osna			con·osnat
	prot.			·cumsana
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.	·cumsanus		·cumsan
perfect	deut.			con·rosan
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.			·cumsanfa
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.		con·osnai
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.			con·osnaitis
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		cumsanad
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of conosna

radical	lenition	nasalization
con·osna (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	con·n-osna

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), “con-osna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language