corop

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Old Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Univerbation of co (so that) + ro- (perfective prefix) +‎ ba (third-person singular present subjunctive of the copula)

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

corop (abbreviated ɔrop)

  1. so that (he/she/it) may be
    • 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. 7d10
      ɔrop inonn cretem bes hi far cridiu et a n-as·beraid hó bélib
      so that the belief which is in your pl heart and what you utter with [your] lips may be the same

Mutation[edit]

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