comhaosta

Irish

Etymology

From comhaois (“equal, corresponding, age; person of same age; contemporary”) +‎ -ta (adjectival suffix) or comh- (“fellow-; equal; close, near”) +‎ aosta (“aged, old”).

Adjective

comhaosta

of the same age; contemporary, coeval (le (“with”))

Related terms

anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
breacaosta (“fairly old”, adjective)
bunaosta (“fairly old; middle-aged”, adjective)
cnagaosta (“advanced in years, elderly”, adjective)
críonaosta (“old and withered”, adjective)
foraosta (“very old”, adjective)
lánaosta (“of full age; rather old”, adjective)
meánaosta (“middle-aged”, adjective)
scothaosta (“fairly old, elderly”, adjective)
tonnaosta (“getting on in years”, adjective)
tromaosta (“of advanced age”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *comhaosta*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
comhaosta	chomhaosta	gcomhaosta

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “comhaosta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN