comhaltas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish comaltas (“foster-brotherhood, intimate friendship; co-fosterage”), from comalta (“foster-brother, foster-sister”). By surface analysis, comhalta (“foster-brother, foster-sister; fellow, member”) +‎ -as.

Noun

comhaltas m (genitive singular comhaltais)

  1. joint fosterage
  2. body of persons, brotherhood
  3. membership

Declension

Declension of comhaltas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative comhaltas
vocative a chomhaltais
genitive comhaltais
dative comhaltas
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an comhaltas
genitive an chomhaltais
dative leis an gcomhaltas
don chomhaltas

Derived terms

  • deartháir comhaltais (“foster-brother”)
  • deirfiúr comhaltais (“foster-sister”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of comhaltas
radical lenition eclipsis
comhaltas chomhaltas gcomhaltas

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

References

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