comh-

See also: comh and cómh

Irish

Alternative forms

• có-, cói- (before m or n)

Etymology

From Old Irish com-, from Proto-Celtic *kom-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with”). Compare Welsh cyf-, Latin com-.

Prefix

comh-

1. mutual, joint, common; co-
2. fellow-
3. equal
4. close, near
5. full, complete, uniform
6. (botany) gamo-

Derived terms

Irish terms prefixed with comh-

• comhthreo

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
comh-	chomh-	gcomh-
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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