comhaois

Irish

Alternative forms

  • comhaos, comhnaois, comhnaos
  • có-aois, có-aos, comh-aois, cómhaois, cómh-aois, comh-aoise, cómh-aoise, comh-aos, cómhaos, comh-n-aois, cómhnaois, comh-n-aos, cómhnaos (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

Originally the genitive singular used attributively, from Old Irish comáes.[2] By surface analysis, comh- +‎ aois. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic comhaois and Manx co-eash.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoː.iːʃ/, (older) /ˈkoː.ɯːʃ/[3]

Noun

comhaois f (genitive singular comhaoise, nominative plural comhaoiseanna or comhaoiseacha or comhaoistí)

  1. contemporary, coeval, peer (person of the same age), age-mate

Declension

Declension of comhaois (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative comhaois comhaoiseanna
vocative a chomhaois a chomhaoiseanna
genitive comhaoise comhaoiseanna
dative comhaois comhaoiseanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an chomhaois na comhaoiseanna
genitive na comhaoise na gcomhaoiseanna
dative leis an gcomhaois
don chomhaois
leis na comhaoiseanna

Derived terms

  • ar comhais (of the same age)

Mutation

Mutated forms of comhaois
radical lenition eclipsis
comhaois chomhaois gcomhaois

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

References

  1. ^ comhaois”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comáes”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 160

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “cóṁaois”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 235; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “comhaois”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Originally the genitive singular used attributively, from Old Irish comáes. By surface analysis, co- +‎ aois. Cognate with Irish comhaois and Manx co-eash.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰɔ.ɯːʃ/, /kʰɯːʃ/

Noun

comhaois m (genitive singular comhaois, plural comhaoisean)

  1. contemporary, peer (person roughly the same age as another)
    Tha sinn nar comhaoisean.
    We are contemporaries.
    Bha e na chomhaois rithe.
    He was her contemporary.

Declension

Declension of comhaois (class IId masculine noun)
indefinite
singular plural
nominative comhaois comhaoisean
genitive comhaois chomhaoisean
dative comhaois comhaoisean
definite
singular plural
nominative (an) comhaois (na) comhaoisean
genitive (a') chomhaois (nan) comhaoisean
dative (a') chomhaois (na) comhaoisean
vocative chomhaois chomhaoisean

Mutation

Mutation of comhaois
radical lenition
comhaois chomhaois

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