anamchara

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish anmcharae (“confessor, spiritual director”, literally “soul-friend”), from ainim(m) (“soul”) + carae (“friend”). By surface analysis, anam +‎ cara.

Noun

anamchara m (genitive singular anamcharad, nominative plural anamchairde)

  1. spiritual adviser, confidant
  2. (deprecated) kindred spirit, soulmate

Declension

Declension of anamchara (fifth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative anamchara anamchairde
vocative a anamchara a anamchairde
genitive anamcharad anamchairde
dative anamchara
anamcharaid (archaic, dialectal) 		anamchairde
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-anamchara na hanamchairde
genitive an anamcharad na n-anamchairde
dative leis an anamchara
leis an anamcharaid (archaic, dialectal)
don anamchara
don anamcharaid (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na hanamchairde

Mutation

Mutated forms of anamchara
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
anamchara n-anamchara hanamchara t-anamchara

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

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