cobais

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Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnfessiō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈko.βəsʲ/,

Noun

cobais f (genitive coibsen, nominative plural coibsin)

(Christianity) confession (of sin)
confidence, secret

Inflection

Feminine n-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	cobais	coibsin^L	coibsin
vocative	cobais	coibsin^L	coibsena^H
accusative	coibsin^N	coibsin^L	coibsena^H
genitive	coibsen	coibsen^L	coibsen^N
dative	coibsin^L, cobais^L	coibsenaib	coibsenaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of *cobais*
radical	lenition	nasalization
cobais	chobais	cobais pronounced with /ɡ-/

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

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cobais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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