Conchobar

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish Conchobar.

Proper noun

Conchobar m (genitive Conchobair)

1. a male given name

Descendants

• Irish: Conchobhar, Conchúr
  • → English: Connor
• Manx: Conchoor
• Scottish Gaelic: Conchobhar

Mutation

Mutation of Conchobar

radical	lenition	nasalization
Conchobar	Chonchobar	Conchobar pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Old Irish

Etymology

con (“hound”) +‎ cobar (“desiring”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkon.xu.βəɾ/
  • (McCone 1996) [ˈkon.xu.βaɾ]
  • (Griffith 2016) [ˈkon.xø.βəɾ]

Proper noun

Conchobar m (genitive Conchobair)

1. a male given name

Inflection

Masculine o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	Conchobar	—	—
vocative	Conchobair	—	—
accusative	ConchobarN	—	—
genitive	ConchobairL	—	—
dative	ConchoburL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: Conchobar
  • Irish: Conchobhar, Conchúr
    • → English: Connor
  • Manx: Conchoor
  • Scottish Gaelic: Conchobhar
• → Old Norse: Konofogr

Mutation

Mutation of Conchobar

radical	lenition	nasalization
Conchobar	Chonchobar	Conchobar pronounced with /ɡ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Schulze-Thulin, Britta (January 2001), “Notes on the Old and Middle Irish Loanwords in Old Norse”, in North-Western European Language Evolution (NOWELE), volume 39, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 56.