ocmad

Old Irish

Etymology

From oc (“at”) +‎ buith (“being”).

Noun

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. 39^a10

     .i. cid cuit a ocmaide nammá.

     i.e. even as to touching it only.

Inflection

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

Mutation of ocmad

radical	lenition	nasalization
ocmad (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	ocmad	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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ocmad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language