coibhneas
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish coibnius (“blood relationship”).
Noun
coibhneas m (genitive singular coibhnis, nominative plural coibhneasa)
- kinship, affinity
- comparative relationship, proportion
Declension
Declension of coibhneas
First declension
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- coibhneasach (“related”, adjective)
- coibhneasacht f (“relativity”)
- coibhneasaí m (“relativist”)
Related terms
- coibhneasta (“relative”, adjective)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| coibhneas | choibhneas | gcoibhneas |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coibhneas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “coibnius”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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