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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish comarsa f (“neighbour; neighbourhood”).
Pronunciation
Noun
comharsa f (genitive singular comharsan, nominative plural comharsana or comharsain)
- neighbour
Usage notes
- Always grammatically feminine, regardless of the gender of the neighbour in question.
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| comharsa
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chomharsa
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gcomharsa
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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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References
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 128, page 68
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 169, page 86
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 167
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 40, page 18
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comarsa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “coṁarsa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 173
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “comharsa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “comharsa”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “comharsa”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024