coibhneas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish coibnius (“blood relationship”).

Noun

coibhneas m (genitive singular coibhnis, nominative plural coibhneasa)

1. kinship, affinity
2. comparative relationship, proportion

Declension

Declension of coibhneas

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative coibhneas coibhneasa Vocative a choibhnis a choibhneasa Genitive coibhnis coibhneas Dative coibhneas coibhneasa

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an coibhneas na coibhneasa Genitive an choibhnis na gcoibhneas Dative leis an gcoibhneas don choibhneas leis na coibhneasa

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
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coibnius”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language