comhlíon

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish comlín.[2] By surface analysis, comh- +‎ líon.

Verb

comhlíon (present analytic comhlíonann, future analytic comhlíonfaidh, verbal noun comhlíonadh, past participle comhlíonta)

  1. to fulfill

Conjugation

Noun

comhlíon m (genitive singular comhlín)

  1. an equal number
    ar comhlíon leas numerous as
  2. multitude

Declension

Declension of comhlíon (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative comhlíon
vocative a chomhlín
genitive comhlín
dative comhlíon
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an comhlíon
genitive an chomhlín
dative leis an gcomhlíon
don chomhlíon

Mutation

Mutated forms of comhlíon
radical lenition eclipsis
comhlíon chomhlíon gcomhlíon

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

References

  1. ^ comhlíon”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comlín”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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