comarbbae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From com- (with) + orbbae (patrimony)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoṽarbe/

Noun

comarbbae m

  1. heir, successor, inheritor
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19c20
      Má nudub·feil i n‑ellug coirp Críst, adib cland Abrache amal ṡodin, et it sib ata chomarpi Abracham.
      If you pl are in the union of the body of Christ, you are Abraham’s children in that case, and it is you who are Abraham’s heirs.
  2. specifically, the title of the ecclesiastic successor the founder of a religious institution.

Inflection

Masculine io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative comarbbae comarbbaeL comarbbaiL
Vocative comarbbai comarbbaeL comarbbu
Accusative comarbbaeN comarbbaeL comarbbuH
Genitive comarbbaiL comarbbaeL comarbbaeN
Dative comarbbuL comarbbaib comarbbaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: comarba, comarpa, comorba

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
comarbbae chomarbbae comarbbae
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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