athchumhscnaidhim

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‘I rest’; indic. past. 3 sg. d’athchumhsgnaidh sé an seachdmhadh lá 16.14. Possibly a misrendering of a form d’athchumhsanaigh based on a verb cumhsanaighidh, a late derivative of con-osna ‘rests’. Cf. Ro chumsain iarum Dia issin tshathurn, LL 8-9 (in an account of Creation). The Bedell version of Genesis 2:2 has do chomhnuigh sé ar an seachtmhadh lá

Aibidil Gaoidheilge & Caiticiosma: Seaán Ó Cearnaigh's Irish primer of religion, published in 1571. Editor: Brian Ó Cuív.