commann

French

Participle

commant

1. present participle of commer

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin commentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.mən̪d̪/
  • (Blasse) [ˈko.man̪d̪]
  • (Griffith) [ˈko.mən̪d̪]

Noun

commant n

1. alliance, pact, union, friendship
   • 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. 78^b11

     Ro·bói commant n-etarru du denum uilc fri mmaccu Israhel.

     There was a covenant between them to do evil to the sons of Israel.

2. company, band
3. (later) love, affection

Inflection

Neuter o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	commantN	commantN	commantL, commanda
vocative	commantN	commantN	commantL, commanda
accusative	commantN	commantN	commantL, commanda
genitive	commaindL	commant	commantN
dative	commundL	commandaib	commandaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

• cairdes

Descendants

• Middle Irish: commond
  • Irish: cumann
  • Manx: commyn
  • Scottish Gaelic: comann

Mutation

Mutation of commant

radical	lenition	nasalization
commant	chommant	commant pronounced with /ɡ-/

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), “commann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language