acomhal

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish accomol (“act of joining, bringing together; junction, meeting, union”), verbal noun of ad·comla (“joins, unites”).

Noun

acomhal m (genitive singular acomhail, nominative plural acomhail)

1. joining, juncture
2. junction

Declension

Declension of acomhal

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative acomhal acomhail Vocative a acomhail a acomhala Genitive acomhail acomhal Dative acomhal acomhail

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-acomhal na hacomhail Genitive an acomhail na n-acomhal Dative leis an acomhal don acomhal leis na hacomhail

Derived terms

• acomhal bóithre m (“road junction”)
• acomhal bosca buí m (“box junction”)
• acomhal busanna m (“bus interchange”)
• acomhal céimnithe m (“staggered junction”)
• acomhal iarnróid m (“railway junction”)
• acomhal mótarbhealaigh m (“motorway junction”)
• acomhal mótarbhealaí m (“motorway interchange”)
• acomhal spaigití m (“spaghetti junction”)
• acomhal trasnaisc m (“crossover junction”)
• acomhal trí bhealach m (“three-way junction”)
• acomhlach (“conjunctive”, adjective)
• stáisiún acomhail m (“junction station”)
• T-acomhal m (“T-junction, T-intersection”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
acomhal	n-acomhal	hacomhal	t-acomhal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “acomhal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “accomol”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “acomhal”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024