tochomracht
Old Irish
Etymology
With to- + com-. See timthirecht for the origin of the -racht.
Noun
tochomracht f
- verbal noun of ton·comrit: weariness, distress
- 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. 14b24
- .i. ropo tochomracht linn buid i mbethu, ut mori omni disiderio cuperemus.
- i.e. it seemed to us a weariness to be in life, so we have been longing for death to all by despair.
- Compert Con Culainn, published in Compert Con Culainn and other stories (1933, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), page 3, edited by Anton Gerard van Hamel
- Ba tochomracht la hUltu a n-aicsiu oc collud a n-írenn.
- It was distressing to the Ulstermen to see the destruction of their land [as a flock of birds had eaten everything on it].
- 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. 14b24
Inflection
| Feminine ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | tochomrachtL | — | — |
| Vocative | tochomrachtL | — | — |
| Accusative | tochomrachtN | — | — |
| Genitive | tochomrachtaeH | — | — |
| Dative | tochomrachtL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| tochomracht | thochomracht | tochomracht pronounced with /d(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), “tochomracht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language