Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Irish comair (in front of).

Noun edit

comhair

  1. Only used in faoi chomhair, i gcomhair, and os comhair

Further reading edit

Etymology 2 edit

Possibly a back-formation from comhaireamh (count; calculation, reckoning), from comh- (common, collective) +‎ áireamh (count, counting, enumeration).

Verb edit

comhair (present analytic comhaireann, future analytic comhairfidh, verbal noun comhaireamh, past participle comhairthe)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) count
  2. (transitive, intransitive) calculate
Conjugation edit

Further reading edit

Etymology 3 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun edit

comhair m pl

  1. inflection of comhar:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
comhair chomhair gcomhair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.