comét

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• coméit (Würzburg Glosses)

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *komentus, essentially *kom- (“with”) +‎ *em- (“to take”) +‎ *-tus (noun forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.ṽʲeːd/

Noun

comét m (genitive cométa)

1. verbal noun of con·ói: keeping, guarding, preservation
   • 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. 112^b20

     aingil dæ bete oc comet ind fír fírioín

     [it is] the angels of God who will be guarding the righteous man

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	comét	—	—
Vocative	comét	—	—
Accusative	cométN	—	—
Genitive	cométoH, cométaH	—	—
Dative	cométL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: comét
  • Irish: coimeád
  • Scottish Gaelic: coimhead

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
comét	chomét	comét pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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