adcobra

Old Irish

Etymology

Deadjectival from ad- +‎ cobar (“desiring”).

From Proto-Indo-European *kwep- (“wish”). Cognate with Latin cupiō (“wish”), Sanskrit कुप्यति (kupyati, “be moved, excited, agitated”), Old Church Slavonic кꙑпѣти (kypěti, “to boil”), Lithuanian kūpė́ti (“to boil”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aðˈkoβra]

Verb

ad·cobra (prototonic ·accobra, verbal noun accobar)

1. to wish, want, desire

For quotations using this term, see Citations:adcobra.

Conjugation

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	ad·cobraim	ad·cobrai	ad·cobra; asin·chobra (with infixed pronoun in-)			ad·cobrat
	Prot.		·accobri	·accobra
Imperfect indicative	Deut.	ad·cobrinn		ad·cobrad, ath·cobrad
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.			ad·cobair
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			ad·rochabair	ad·rochobursam
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			ad·cobra			ad·cobrat
	Prot.			·accobra
Past subjunctive	Deut.	ad·cobrinn		ad·cobrad
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		accobar
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Complex, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive

Descendants

• Middle Irish: accobraid

Mutation

Mutation of adcobra

radical	lenition	nasalization
ad·cobra	ad·chobra	ad·cobra pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 25

Further reading

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