cónaí

• comhnaidhe, cómhnaidhe, comhnaighe, cómhnaighe, comhnuidhe, cómhnuidhe, comhnuighe, cómhnuighe, cómhnuí (superseded) (both noun and verb form)

From Old Irish comnaide. Compare Scottish Gaelic còmhnaidh.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /koːˈn̪ˠiː/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːnˠiː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkõːnˠĩ/^[1]

cónaí m (genitive singular cónaithe, nominative plural cónaithe)

1. home, residence, abode
2. dwelling, domicile
3. resting place
4. verbal noun of cónaigh

   Tá mé i mo chónaí i mBaile Átha Cliath. ― I live in Dublin.

   • 1906, E. C. Quiggin, “Áindrías an Ime”, in A Dialect of Donegal: Being the Speech of Meenawannia in the Parish of Glenties, page 196:

     Bhí Áindrías an Ime na chomhnaidhe i mBaile ui Mún i nGleann an Bhaile Dhuibh.

     Áindrías of the Butter lived in Ballymoon in Gleann an Bhaile Dhuibh.

• buanchónaí (“permanent abode”)
• i gcónaí (“always; continually; constantly; yet, still; ever”)
• scoil chónaithe (“boarding school”)

• cónaigh (“live (in, at), reside; dwell, abide; rest”)

cónaí

1. present subjunctive analytic of cónaigh

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comnaide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “coṁnuiḋe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 177
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cónaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cónaí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cónaí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
• “cónaí”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy