Univerbation ofco(“so that, that”) and unattested*ban(first-person plural present subjunctive of the copula). Asco triggers eclipsis, the/b/ of*ban is nasalized to/mb/, here simplified to/m/.
comman
- thatwemaybe
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb.31c11
mad in chrud so bemmi .i. co comalnammar a pridchimmeetco·mman dessimrecht do chách- if this is how we will be, i.e. that we may fulfill what we preach and may be an example to everyone
comman
- alternative form ofcommaun
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page31