comhaireamh
Irish
Alternative forms
- cómhaireamh
Etymology
From Middle Irish comáirem (“act of counting”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *rīmā (“number”). By surface analysis, comh- (“common, collective”) + áireamh (“count, counting, enumeration”) and comhair + -amh.
Noun
comhaireamh m (genitive singular as substantive comhairimh, genitive as verbal noun comhairthe, nominative plural comhairimh)
- verbal noun of comhair
- count, (act of) counting; calculation, reckoning
Declension
Declension of comhaireamh
First declension
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Declension of comhaireamh
Third declension
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Synonyms
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| comhaireamh | chomhaireamh | gcomhaireamh |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “comáirem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cóṁaireaṁ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 172
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “comhaireamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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