cobodlus

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cobadlus, cobfodlus

Etymology

From cobodail (from con·fodlai, from com- + fo- + dál) + -us.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoβoðlus]

Noun

cobodlus m

1. fellowship, communion
   • 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. 22^b26

     Ná bíth i cobadlus doïb, ar atá torad la gnímu soilse .i. praemia aeterna ní ḟil immurgu acht infructuosa.

     Do not be in fellowship with them, for there is fruit with works of light, i.e. praemia aeterna. There is nothing [with works of darkness], however, save infructuousa.

Declension

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cobodlus	—	—
Vocative	cobodlus	—	—
Accusative	cobodlusN	—	—
Genitive	cobodlusoH, cobodlusaH	—	—
Dative	cobodlusL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

Further reading

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