comairle
Old Irish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkoβ̃ɨr͈ʲlʲe]
Noun
comairle f
- verbal noun of con·airlethar
- advice, counsel
- 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. 23b10
- Hó goistiu .i. do·bert goiste imma brágait fadesin ɔid·marb, húare nád ndigni Abisolón a chomairli.
- By a noose, i.e. he put a noose around his own neck so that it killed him, because Absalom did not follow his advice.
- (literally, “do his advice”)
- 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. 23b10
- council
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | comairleL | — | — |
| vocative | comairleL | — | — |
| accusative | comairliN | — | — |
| genitive | comairle | — | — |
| dative | comairliL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Synonyms
Descendants
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| comairle | chomairle | comairle pronounced with /ɡ-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comairle”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language