comhair

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish comair (in front of).[4]

Noun

comhair

  1. only used in faoi chomhair, i gcomhair, and os comhair

Further reading

Etymology 2

Possibly a back-formation from comhaireamh (count; calculation, reckoning), from comh- (common, collective) +‎ áireamh (count, counting, enumeration).[5]

Verb

comhair (present analytic comhaireann, future analytic comhairfidh, verbal noun comhaireamh, past participle comhairthe)

  1. (ambitransitive) to count
  2. (ambitransitive) to calculate
Conjugation

Further reading

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

comhair m pl

  1. inflection of comhar:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Mutated forms of comhair
radical lenition eclipsis
comhair chomhair gcomhair

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Description of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, section 133, page 101
  2. ^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht [The Irish of Cois Fharraige: Accidence] (in Irish), 2nd edition, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath [Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], section 415, page 229
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 33, page 16
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  5. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comáirmid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language