nephchomtetarrachte

Old Irish

Etymology

neph- +‎ comthetarrachtae (past participle of con·tetarrat (“to comprehend”))

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈn͈ʲeɸxoβ̃ʲθʲedar͈axtɘ]

Adjective

nephchomtetarrachte

1. incomprehensible
   • 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. 55^d11

     Amal du·berad nech hi ceist do Dauid: “Húare is móir sléb fírinne Dǽ, cid ara fodmai-siu, ⟨a⟩ Dauid, didiu a ndu imnedaib ⁊ frithoircnib fo·daimi? Air it fírían-⟨s⟩u.” Ícaid-som didiu anísin, a n‑as·mbeir iudicia Domini abisus multa .i. ataat mesai Dǽ nephchomtetarrachti amal abis ⁊ amal fudumain. Is ed in sin fod·era in n‑erígim, cid ara fodaim int aís fírían inna fochaidi, ⁊ cid ara mbiat in pecthaig isnaib soinmechaib.

     As though someone had put as a question to David: “Because God’s righteousness is as great as a mountain, why then, David, dost thou suffer what of afflictions and injuries thou sufferest? For thou art righteous.” He solves that then when he says “iudicia Domini abyssus multa”, i.e. there are judgments of God incomprehensible like an abyss and like a depth. That is what causes the complaint why the righteous folk endure tribulations, and why sinners are in prosperity.

Declension

io/iā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	nephchomtetarrachte	nephchomtetarrachte	nephchomtetarrachte
Vocative	nephchomtetarrachti
Accusative	nephchomtetarrachte	nephchomtetarrachti
Genitive	nephchomtetarrachti	nephchomtetarrachte	nephchomtetarrachti
Dative	nephchomtetarrachtiu	nephchomtetarrachti	nephchomtetarrachtiu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	nephchomtetarrachti	nephchomtetarrachti
Vocative	nephchomtetarrachti nephchomtetarrachtiu*
Accusative	nephchomtetarrachti nephchomtetarrachtiu*
Genitive	nephchomtetarrachte
Dative	nephchomtetarrachtib
Notes	* when substantivized

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
nephchomtetarrachte also nnephchomtetarrachte after a proclitic ending in a vowel	nephchomtetarrachte pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.