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ocmad

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From oc (at) +‎ buith (being).

Noun

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ocmad f (genitive ocmaide)

  1. verbal noun of ocu·bí: touching
    • 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. 39a10
      .i. cid cuit a ocmaide nammá.
      i.e. even as to touching it only.

Inflection

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Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ocmadL
Vocative ocmadL
Accusative ocmaidN
Genitive ocmaideH
Dative ocmaidL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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Mutation of ocmad
radical lenition nasalization
ocmad
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-ocmad

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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