comharba

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish comarba, from Old Irish comarbbae.

Pronunciation

Noun

comharba m (genitive singular comharba, nominative plural comharbaí)

  1. (Christianity, historical) A title given to the designated successor of the founder of a religious institution.
  2. successor; inheritor

Declension

Declension of comharba (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative comharba comharbaí
vocative a chomharba a chomharbaí
genitive comharba comharbaí
dative comharba comharbaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an comharba na comharbaí
genitive an chomharba na gcomharbaí
dative leis an gcomharba
don chomharba 		leis na comharbaí

Descendants

  • → English: coarb

Mutation

Mutated forms of comharba
radical lenition eclipsis
comharba chomharba gcomharba

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comarba”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comarb(b)ae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch , Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 159

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