comhair

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish comair (“in front of”).

Noun

comhair

  1. Only used in faoi chomhair, i gcomhair, and os comhair

Further reading

Etymology 2

Possibly a back-formation from comhaireamh (“count; calculation, reckoning”), from comh- (“common, collective”) +‎ áireamh (“count, counting, enumeration”).

Verb

comhair (present analytic comhaireann, future analytic comhairfidh, verbal noun comhaireamh, past participle comhairthe)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) count
  2. (transitive, intransitive) calculate
Conjugation

Further reading

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

comhair m pl

  1. inflection of comhar:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
comhair chomhair gcomhair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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