From Old Irish commórad (“comparing”), verbal noun of commóraid (“to celebrate”) (from com- + móraid (“to magnify”)) + -tas.
comórtas m (genitive singular comórtais, nominative plural comórtais)
- comparison
- competition
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “commórtas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “comórtas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “comórtas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 177
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “comórtas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN