cobais

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnfessiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.vəsʲ/

Noun

cobais f (genitive coibsen, nominative plural coibsin)

1. (Christianity) confession (of sin)
2. confidence, secret

Inflection

Feminine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cobais	coibsinL	coibsin
Vocative	cobais	coibsinL	coibsenaH
Accusative	coibsinN	coibsinL	coibsenaH
Genitive	coibsen	coibsenL	coibsenN
Dative	coibsinL, cobaisL	coibsenaib	coibsenaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cobais	chobais	cobais pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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), “cobais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language