comhluadar

Irish

Etymology

From comh- +‎ luadar.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /kõːˈl̪ˠuəd̪ˠəɾˠ/[1]
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈkoːlˠuəd̪ˠəɾˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːlˠuəd̪ˠəɾˠ/

Noun

comhluadar m (genitive singular comhluadar, nominative plural comhluadair)

  1. (social) company
  2. party (group of people travelling or attending an event together)
    D’imigh an comhluadar
    The party departed.
  3. family, household
    An bhfuil an comhluadar ar fad go maith?
    Are all the family well?

Declension

Declension of comhluadar (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative comhluadar
vocative a chomhluadair
genitive comhluadair
dative comhluadar
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an comhluadar
genitive an chomhluadair
dative leis an gcomhluadar
don chomhluadar

Derived terms

  • comhluadrach
  • comhluadracht
  • i gcomhluadar
  • déan comhluadar le
  • coinnigh comhluadar le

Mutation

Mutated forms of comhluadar
radical lenition eclipsis
comhluadar chomhluadar gcomhluadar

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 128, page 68

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