conson

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin cōnsona.

Noun

conson f (genitive consoine, nominative plural consona)

1. (phonetics, phonology) consonant

Declension

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	consonL	consoinL, consin	consonaH, connsona
vocative	consonL	consoinL, consin	consonaH, connsona
accusative	consoinN, consin	consoinL, consin	consonaH, connsona
genitive	consoineH	consonL	consonN
dative	consoinL, consin	consonaib	consonaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Quotations

• c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 9^a22 (Wikisource link)

  Cía for·comam-ni ríagoil sen-Gréc hi scríbunt in dá caractar isnaib ɔsonaib ucut, ro·cruthaigsemmar camaiph immurgu óen charactar – ·f· tar hési ·p· co tinfeth – i n‑epertaib Latinṅdaib.

  Although we preserve the rule of the ancient Greeks in writing the two charac­ters in those conso­nants, we have, however, formed one character – f instead of p with lenition – in Latin words.

Descendants

• Irish: consan
• Scottish Gaelic: consan

Mutation

Mutation of conson

radical	lenition	nasalization
conson	chonson	conson 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), “conson”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language