immcomairc

Old Irish

Etymology

imm- +‎ com- + Proto-Celtic *ɸarsketi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imˈkoβ̃ərʲkʲ/, [imˈkoβ̃ɨrʲkʲ]

Verb

imm·comairc (verbal noun imchomarc)

1. to ask (with do often indicating the person who was asked)

   Synonym: íarmi·foich

   • 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. 197^b10

     [...]frecre do neoch imme·chomarcar duit[...]

     [...]an answer to what you were asked[...]

   • c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-I 573

     A lláa n-aili, imchomrac [im·chomairc, LU] araile fer dona druidib cid día maith a lláai-sin.

     That other day, a certain man asked the druids what that day was good for.

   • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 1059

     Ma[i]th i[n] ré immid·comairc. Senchán eges Erend uile ind-so.

     (when a group of poets is asked by a woman to identify themselves) Good are those you asked. [I am] Senchán, Poet of all Ireland.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.		immid·comairc	imme·chomairc (relative)				imme·chomarcar (relative)	imme·chomarcatar
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.			im·roichomairc
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.			imme·chomairsed
	prot.
imperative				imchomarcad	imchomarcam
verbal noun		imchomarc
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of imm·comairc

radical	lenition	nasalization
imm·comairc	imm·chomairc	imm·comairc 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), “imm-comairc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language