cothabhálach

Irish

Alternative forms

• cothálach

Etymology

From cothabháil (“sustenance, maintenance”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

cothabhálach (genitive singular masculine cothabhálaigh, genitive singular feminine cothabhálaí, plural cothabhálacha, comparative cothabhálaí)

1. sustaining, nourishing; productive of sustenance

Declension

Declension of cothabhálach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	cothabhálach	chothabhálach	cothabhálacha; chothabhálacha²
Vocative	chothabhálaigh		cothabhálacha
Genitive		cothabhálaí	cothabhálacha	cothabhálach
Dative	cothabhálach; chothabhálach¹	chothabhálach; chothabhálaigh (archaic)	cothabhálacha; chothabhálacha²
Comparative	níos cothabhálaí
Superlative	is cothabhálaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

• féinchothabhálach (“self-sustaining”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cothabhálach	chothabhálach	gcothabhálach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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