comhaltas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish comaltas (“foster-brotherhood, intimate friendship; co-fosterage”), from comalta (“foster-brother, foster-sister”). By surface analysis, comhalta (“foster-brother, foster-sister; fellow, member”) +‎ -as.

Noun

comhaltas m (genitive singular comhaltais)

joint fosterage
body of persons, brotherhood
membership

Declension

Declension of comhaltas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	comhaltas
Vocative	a chomhaltais
Genitive	comhaltais
Dative	comhaltas

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular
Nominative	an comhaltas
Genitive	an chomhaltais
Dative	leis an gcomhaltas don chomhaltas

Derived terms

deartháir comhaltais (“foster-brother”)
deirfiúr comhaltais (“foster-sister”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
comhaltas	chomhaltas	gcomhaltas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “comhaltas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “comhaltas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
“comhaltas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024