Compd. of cen and -tá (see attá) used as prep.
and conjunction. See
GOI § 775
. In O. Ir.
usually cenmithá (
cenmathá,
Wb. 33a4
,
Sg. 56b13
,
71b17
;
cenm,
201b18
).
cinmothā,
Ériu i 124.10
. In later lang.
also genmothá. With pl. ending cenmothát (cenmthat disyll.,
SR 399
). Rarely with other forms of subst. vb.:
cenmibí,
Ériu vii 148 § 8
.
cenmobi,
YBL 140b1
.
cenmorobai,
Ériu
vii 164.11
.
cenmo bui,
TFerbe 27
. The general rule for all
periods of the language is that the form
cenmothá
etc.
is folld. by accus. (sg. and pl.), exceptions being rare. Cf.
cenmothá
na .uii. claidseo,
SM Facs. 18a8
(emended to
cladu-so,
Ériu xvii 72 § 14
).
cenmotha
dias,
RC xxiv 200.15
.
genmothá somh besides him,
AFM iv 864.1
. See
GOI Translator's Notes no. 169
. The pl. form in -át is folld. by
the nom. pl. (early exx. being
Ériu xiii 18.13
,
SR 399
,
3421
)
or stands by itself: cenmóthát besides them,
AFM iii 126.9
.
See also
ZCP xxviii 125
-
6
.
As prep. (a)
apart from, besides, in addition to:
céin motha
.i. leath amuigh no a bfhégmhuis,
O'Cl.
genmotha .i.
anegmais,
Lec. Gl. 11
. cenmitha innadeitched gl. praeter
. . . detestationem,
Ml. 103a7
. cenmithá aní-siu gl. quod est
alium mandatum,
Wb. 6a25
. cenmithá anisin `besides this',
gl. si quid aliter sapitis,
24a18
. cenmithá innahí asrubart gl.
praeterea,
Sg. 21b10
. cenmathá inna hí asrubart gl. cetera
quoque omnia,
56b13
. c.¤ in pennait gl. comdire cac deoradh
de fri ri[g] ┐ espoc `apart from the "penance" [in addition]',
BCrólige 4 gl.2
.
leath ┐ octmhadh ig fir ín craind, ┐ leath
genmotha octmadh ig fir na mbeach,
Laws iv 184.5
.
cenmothá fossu without counting servants (in list),
TBC-I¹ 162
.
cenmotha ind aes ṅdedenaig,
Rawl. 69a15
. cenmothat
doine do marbad in addition to killing people,
AU ii 156.x
.
amaille re leabhroibh gabhála . . . oile gen mó táid sin,
MS. Mat. 556.2
.
cenmothát na secht ríg,
ZCP viii 326.6
.
chriathrastair na criocha . . . genmothat na dúine,
Hugh Roe²
170.23
.
(b) After generalizations, negations, etc.
except, but
(often
equivalent of acht): cenmitha inso gl. excepto hoc,
Ml. 92a10
.
cenmithá étrad gl. omne peccatum . . . extra corpus est: qui
autem fornicatur, in corpus suum peccat,
Wb. 9d7
. cenmithá
.f. gl. caeteris . . . consonantibus,
Sg. 24b3
. cenmithá in
consoin gl. reliquam partem,
58b7
.
olchenae cenmithá unus
,
211a2
.
cenmothát tríar,
LU 4086
.
geinmothá osgar amhrois,
Sitzungsb. Pr. Akad. 1919, 92 § 9
. ní maith sil Ḟergusa cenmotha oen
except for one man,
RC xxiv 194.13
.
genmo 'táid Connachtaigh namá,
ML 60.2
.
ceinmotha isi,
ACL iii 308.11
.
a huiledeto genmotha inni rothormachtatar filid `the whole
of it except what poets added',
Auraic. 21
.
Ard Macha do
loscadh . . . cona durthigib uile cenmotha in teach screbtra
nama,
RC xvii 358.26
(Tig.). In the follg. acht would normally
be required: ni raibhe Seaan cenmotha móirṡeiser was
accompanied only by seven,
AFM iv 882.18
.
ní raibhe lá T. cén
mo thá fiche long,
ii 1056.22
.
As conj. confined to O. Ir. glosses, where it may be folld.
either by principal clause or by a nasalizing rel. clause, see
GOI 551
. cenmitha as n-áith `besides that it is
sharp',
Ml. 72b15
. cenmithá ara-necatar coitchena in or
dano
gl. praeterea communia . . . ,
Sg. 65a11
.
cenmitha
fodailter ind rann insce,
3b15
.