comhaltas

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish comaltas (“foster-brotherhood, intimate friendship; co-fosterage”), from comalta (“foster-brother, foster-sister”). By surface analysis, comhalta (“foster-brother, foster-sister; fellow, member”) +‎ -as.

Noun

comhaltas m (genitive singular comhaltais)

  1. joint fosterage
  2. body of persons, brotherhood
  3. membership

Declension

Declension of comhaltas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative comhaltas
vocative a chomhaltais
genitive comhaltais
dative comhaltas
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an comhaltas
genitive an chomhaltais
dative leis an gcomhaltas
don chomhaltas

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of comhaltas
radical lenition eclipsis
comhaltas chomhaltas gcomhaltas

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

References

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