comarbbae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• comarbae, comarpe

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. 19^c20

     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

Derived terms

• comarbus

Descendants

• Middle Irish: comarba, comarpa, comorba
  • Irish: comharba
    • → English: coarb

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
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.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “comarb(b)ae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language