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Old Irish
Etymology
From com- + airle.
Pronunciation
Noun
comairle f
- verbal noun of con·airlethar
- advice, counsel
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 23b10
Hó goistiu .i. do·bert goiste imma brágait fadesin ɔid·marb, húare nád ndigni Abisolón a chomairli.- By a noose, i.e. he put a noose around his own neck so that it killed him, because Absalom did not follow his advice.
- (literally, “do his advice”)
- council
Inflection
| Feminine iā-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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| Nominative
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comairleL
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| Vocative
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comairleL
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| Accusative
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comairliN
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| Genitive
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comairle
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| Dative
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comairliL
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Synonyms
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of comairle
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lenition |
nasalization
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| comairle
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chomairle
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comairle
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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