comman

comman

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of co (“so that, that”) and unattested *ban (first-person plural present subjunctive of the copula). As co triggers eclipsis, the /b/ of *ban is nasalized to /mb/, here simplified to /m/.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈman/

Phrase

comman

1. that we 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. 31c11

     mad in chrud so bemmi .i. co comalnammar a pridchimme et comman dessimrecht do chách

     if this is how we will be, i.e. that we may fulfill what we preach and may be an example to everyone