comalta

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish comaltae, from Proto-Celtic *komaltyos. By surface analysis, com- (“with”) +‎ ailte (“fostered”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoβ̃al͈ta/

Noun

comalta m

1. foster brother
2. (occasionally) foster sister

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• comaltar (“co-fosterage, joint responsibility for fosterage”)
• comaltas (“foster-brotherhood, intimate friendship; co-fosterage”)

Descendants

• Irish: comhalta

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
comalta	chomalta	comalta pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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