adcumaing

== Old Irish == === Etymology === From in- +‎ com- +‎ ·icc. === Verb === ad·cumaing (prototonic ·ecmaing) to strike to happen to happen to be For quotations using this term, see Citations:adcumaing. ==== Usage notes ==== The prototonic third-person singular present is commonly used in absolute position to introduce an event that happened, regardless of whether the event happened in the present or past, even when normally the deuterotonic would be used there. In the sense "happen to be", the subject is encoded as an infixed object pronoun. ==== Inflection ==== For the preterite, an s-preterite is used in the sense “to strike”, while in the sense “to happen”, reduplicated preterites tend to be used. ==== Derived terms ==== do·ecmaing === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ad-cumaing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language