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adcumaing
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Old Irish
Etymology
Verb
ad·cumaing (prototonic ·ecmaing)
For quotations using this term, see Citations:adcumaing.
Usage notes
- The prototonic third-person singular present is commonly used in absolute position to introduce an event that happened, regardless of whether the event happened in the present or past, even when normally the deuterotonic would be used there.
- In the sense "happen to be", the subject is encoded as an infixed object pronoun.
Inflection
For the preterite, an s-preterite is used in the sense “to strike”, while in the sense “to happen”, reduplicated preterites tend to be used.
Derived terms
Mutation
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), “1 ad-cumaing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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