comhdheas

Irish

Alternative forms

  • coimdeas, coimdheas, coimdhes, coimhdheas, cóimhdheas, comdheas, cómhdheas, comhdhes (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish comdess.[2] By surface analysis, comh- +‎ deas.

Pronunciation

Adjective

comhdheas (genitive singular masculine comhdheis, genitive singular feminine comhdheise, plural comhdheasa, comparative comhdheise)

  1. ambidextrous (having equal ability in both hands)
  2. (predicative only) convenient
  3. (obsolete, predicative only) unimportant, indifferent
    Synonym: cuma

Declension

Declension of comhdheas
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative comhdheas chomhdheas comhdheasa;
chomhdheasa2
vocative chomhdheis comhdheasa
genitive comhdheise comhdheasa comhdheas
dative comhdheas;
chomhdheas1 		chomhdheas;
chomhdheis (archaic) 		comhdheasa;
chomhdheasa2
Comparative níos comhdheise
Superlative is comhdheise

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of comhdheas
radical lenition eclipsis
comhdheas chomhdheas gcomhdheas

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

References

  1. ^ “comhdheas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 comdes”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 483, page 154

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