cundubart

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cuntubart

Etymology

From com- +‎ dí- +‎ fo- +‎ bert.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkun͈duβar͈t]

Noun

cundubart f (genitive cundubairte)

1. doubt

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cundubartL	cundubairtL	cundubartaH
Vocative	cundubartL	cundubairtL	cundubartaH
Accusative	cundubairtN	cundubairtL	cundubartaH
Genitive	cundubairteH	cundubartL	cundubartN
Dative	cundubairtL	cundubartaib	cundubartaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Quotations

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13^b12

  Masu glé lib trá in precept ro·pridchus-sa .i. as·réracht Críst hó marbaib, cid dia léicid cundubairt for drécht úaib de resurrectione hominum?

  If, then, what I have preached is clear to you, namely that Christ has risen from the dead, why do you pl leave doubt on a portion of you concerning the resurrection of humans?

  (literally, “…the preaching that I have preached…”)

Descendants

• Middle Irish: cuntabairt
  • Irish: contúirt
  • Scottish Gaelic: contabhairt

Mutation

Mutation of cundubart

radical	lenition	nasalization
cundubart	chundubart	cundubart 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.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuntabart”, 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, page 467