coimirce

Irish

Alternative forms
  • comairc, comairce, comairghe, coimrí, comhraí, comraí
  • coimhridhe, coimhrighe, coimridhe, coimhrighe, comhraidhe, comhraighe, comraidhe, comraighe (superseded)[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish comairche.[2]

Noun

coimirce f (genitive singular coimirce)

  1. protection, guardianship; patronage.

Declension
Declension of coimirce

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative coimirce
Vocative a choimirce
Genitive coimirce
Dative coimirce

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an choimirce
Genitive na coimirce
Dative leis an gcoimirce

don choimirce

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
coimirce choimirce gcoimirce
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. “coimirce”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “commairge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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