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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish coibnius (“blood relationship”).
Noun
coibhneas m (genitive singular coibhnis, nominative plural coibhneasa)
- kinship, affinity
- comparative relationship, proportion
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| coibhneas
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choibhneas
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gcoibhneas
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coibhneas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coibnius”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language