comhaireamh
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Irish comáirem (“act of counting”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *rīmā (“number”). By surface analysis, comh- (“common, collective”) + áireamh (“count, counting, enumeration”) and comhair + -amh.
Noun
editcomhaireamh m (genitive singular as substantive comhairimh, genitive as verbal noun comhairthe, nominative plural comhairimh)
- verbal noun of comhair
- count, (act of) counting; calculation, reckoning
Declension
editDeclension of comhaireamh
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Declension of comhaireamh
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Synonyms
editMutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
comhaireamh | chomhaireamh | gcomhaireamh |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comáirem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cóṁaireaṁ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 172
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “comhaireamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂rey-
- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms prefixed with comh-
- Irish terms suffixed with -amh
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish verbal nouns
- Irish first-declension nouns
- Irish third-declension nouns