acomhal

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish accomol (“act of joining, bringing together; junction, meeting, union”), verbal noun of ad·comla (“joins, unites”).

Noun

acomhal m (genitive singular acomhail, nominative plural acomhail)

Declension

Declension of acomhal (first declension)

bare forms
case	singular	plural
nominative	acomhal	acomhail
vocative	a acomhail	a acomhala
genitive	acomhail	acomhal
dative	acomhal	acomhail

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an t-acomhal	na hacomhail
genitive	an acomhail	na n-acomhal
dative	leis an acomhal don acomhal	leis na hacomhail

Derived terms

acomhal bóithre m (“road junction”)
acomhal bosca buí m (“box junction”)
acomhal busanna m (“bus interchange”)
acomhal céimnithe m (“staggered junction”)
acomhal iarnróid m (“railway junction”)
acomhal mótarbhealaigh m (“motorway junction”)
acomhal mótarbhealaí m (“motorway interchange”)
acomhal spaigití m (“spaghetti junction”)
acomhal trasnaisc m (“crossover junction”)
acomhal trí bhealach m (“three-way junction”)
acomhlach (“conjunctive”, adjective)
stáisiún acomhail m (“junction station”)
T-acomhal m (“T-junction, T-intersection”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *acomhal*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
acomhal	n-acomhal	hacomhal	t-acomhal

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

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “acomhal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “accomol”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
“acomhal”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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