comharsa

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish comarsa f (“neighbour; neighbourhood”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

comharsa f (genitive singular comharsan, nominative plural comharsana or comharsain)

  1. neighbour

Usage notes

  • Always grammatically feminine, regardless of the gender of the neighbour in question.

Declension

Declension of comharsa (fifth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative comharsa comharsana
vocative a chomharsa a chomharsana
genitive comharsan comharsan
dative comharsa
comharsain (archaic, dialectal) 		comharsana
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an chomharsa na comharsana
genitive na comharsan na gcomharsan
dative leis an gcomharsa
leis an gcomharsain (archaic, dialectal)
don chomharsa
don chomharsain (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na comharsana

Mutation

Mutated forms of comharsa
radical lenition eclipsis
comharsa chomharsa gcomharsa

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

References

  1. ^ “comharsa”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comarsa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 128, page 68
  4. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 169, page 86
  5. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 167
  6. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 40, page 18

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