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comharsa

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish comarsa f (“neighbour; neighbourhood”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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comharsa f (genitive singular comharsan, nominative plural comharsana or comharsain)

  1. neighbour

Usage notes

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  • Always grammatically feminine, regardless of the gender of the neighbour in question.

Declension

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Declension of comharsa

Fifth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative comharsa comharsana
Vocative a chomharsa a chomharsana
Genitive comharsan comharsan
Dative comharsa
comharsain (archaic, dialectal) 		comharsana

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an chomharsa na comharsana
Genitive na comharsan na gcomharsan
Dative leis an gcomharsa
leis an gcomharsain (archaic, dialectal)

don chomharsa
don chomharsain (archaic, dialectal)

leis na comharsana

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
comharsa chomharsa gcomharsa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 68
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 86
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 18

Further reading

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