còmhrag

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish comrac (“meeting, encounter”). Cognate with Welsh cyfrang (“rencounter”) and Lithuanian rinkti (“gather, assemble”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɔ̃ːɾak/

Noun

còmhrag f (genitive singular còmhraig or còmhraige, plural còmhragan)

1. conflict, combat, fight

Derived terms

• miann còmhraig
• còmhraig (“fight”, verb)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
còmhrag	chòmhrag
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “còmhrag”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN