Irish
Etymology
From ceol (“music”) + coirm (“feast, festival”). Compare Scottish Gaelic cuirm-chiùil.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈcoːlˠˌxɞɾʲəmʲ/
Noun
ceolchoirm f (genitive singular ceolchoirme, nominative plural ceolchoirmeacha)
- concert
Declension
Declension of ceolchoirm (second declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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ceolchoirm
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ceolchoirmeacha
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| vocative
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a cheolchoirm
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a cheolchoirmeacha
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| genitive
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ceolchoirme
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ceolchoirmeacha
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| dative
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ceolchoirm
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ceolchoirmeacha
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| forms with the definite article
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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an cheolchoirm
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na ceolchoirmeacha
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| genitive
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na ceolchoirme
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na gceolchoirmeacha
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| dative
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leis an gceolchoirm don cheolchoirm
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leis na ceolchoirmeacha
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Derived terms
- mórphianó ceolchoirme (“concert grand”)
- airde ceolchoirme (“concert pitch”)
- ceolchoirm phromanáid (“promenade concert”)
Mutation
Mutated forms of ceolchoirm
| radical
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| ceolchoirm
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cheolchoirm
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gceolchoirm
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ceolchoirm”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ceolchoirm”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “ceolchoirm”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025