# conocaib
## Old Irish
### Etymology

From com- +‎ uss- +‎ gaibid (“to take”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /konˈoɡəβʲ/, [konˈoɡɨβʲ]

### Verb

con·ocaib (verbal noun cumgabál)
* to raise, rise
** 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. 83$^a$4
    .i. intan con·ucbad in nél no·bith immun n-aírc, migrabunt filii Israhel hi suidiu; intan dano nu·n-anad in nél hisin, no·gaibtissom dunad hi suidiu.When the cloud that was around the Ark were lifted, then the Children of Israel would migrate; when, moreover, the cloud rested, they would camp out.
** c. 850 Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30, Bcr. 33$^d$12
    .i. du hi·cumgabæi.e. the place in which you sg may uplift. (glossing Latin loca sustuleris)
** c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 104
    .i. ind naithr humaithe thal con·ocabsa[t] maic Israel in diserto.that is, that bronze serpent which the Children of Israel upraised in the desert.
* to uplift, exalt, extol
** c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 57$^d$8
    .i. med brithemnachtae Dæ hua·ndamnither int ingor, is huant firinni in[na] brithemnachtae-si[n] con·ocaba[r] in firián.i.e. the balance of the judgment of God whereby the impious is condemned, it is by the truth of that judgment that the righteous man is exalted.

#### Inflection

| | | 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. |
| Present indicative | Deut. | | | cot·n-occaib (with infixed pronoun t-) | | con·ocabar |
| Present indicative | Prot. | | | | | |
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | | | | con·ucbaitis | |
| Imperfect indicative | Prot. | | | | | |
| Preterite | Deut. | cot·n-ócbus (with infixed pronoun t-) | | | con·ocabsat | con·ucbad |
| Preterite | Prot. | | | ·cumgab | | |
| Perfect | Deut. | | | con·n-úargab (nasalized relative) | | con·úargabad |
| Perfect | Prot. | | | | | |
| Future | Deut. | | | con·ocæba | | con·uicgébthar |
| Future | Prot. | | | | | |
| Conditional | Deut. | | | | | |
| Conditional | Prot. | | | | | |
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | | | con·ocba | cotom·rócbat (ro-form with infixed pronoun tom-) | |
| Present subjunctive | Prot. | | ·cumgabae | | ·cumcabat | |
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | | | con·ucbad | con·ucabtis | |
| Past subjunctive | Prot. | | | | | |
| Imperative | Imperative | | | | | |
| Verbal noun | Verbal noun | cumgabál | | | | |
| Past participle | Past participle | cumgabthae | | | | |
| Verbal of necessity | Verbal of necessity | | | | | |

### Further reading

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