is cuman la

== Old Irish == === Etymology === Literally "is remembered by". The middle term cuman, which is used nowhere else in Old Irish, is generally connected to Welsh cof (“memory”). === Verb === is cuman la to remember c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 124b5 ==== Usage notes ==== The la indicates the person who is remembering, while whatever is remembered follows this entire construction as the copular subject. ==== Descendants ==== Middle Irish: is cuman, is cuman la Irish: is cuimhin le === References === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuman”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language