coitheanal

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

  • coithional, coimhthional, co-thional, comh-thional

Etymology

From Old Irish comthinól.[1] Cognate with Irish comhthionól. By surface analysis, co- +‎ tional.

Pronunciation

Noun

coitheanal m (genitive singular coitheanail, plural coitheanalan)

  1. (religion) congregation

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comthinól”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941) “The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire”, in A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, volume II, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 20
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