comarbbae

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- (“with”) +‎ orbbae (“patrimony”)

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
      it sib ata chomarpi Abracham
      glosses heredes
  2. specifically, the title of the ecclesiastic successor the founder of a religious institution.

Inflection

Masculine io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

References

  • “comarb(b)ae” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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