comhairle

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish comairle (“advice, counsel, council”).

Pronunciation

Noun

comhairle f (genitive singular comhairle, nominative plural comhairlí or comhairleacha)

  1. (piece of) advice, counsel; direction, influence
  2. council

Declension

Declension of comhairle

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative comhairle comhairlí
Vocative a chomhairle a chomhairlí
Genitive comhairle comhairlí
Dative comhairle comhairlí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an chomhairle na comhairlí
Genitive na comhairle na gcomhairlí
Dative leis an gcomhairle

don chomhairle

leis na comhairlí

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
comhairle chomhairle gcomhairle
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comairle”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 86
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 83

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish comairle (“advice, counsel, council”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰɔ̃.ərˠʎə/

Noun

comhairle f (genitive singular comhairle, plural comhairlean)

  1. advice
  2. council

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
comhairle chomhairle
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “comhairle”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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