comhdheas

Irish

Alternative forms
  • coimdeas, coimdheas, coimdhes, coimhdheas, cóimhdheas, comdheas, cómhdheas, comhdhes (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish comdess.[2] By surface analysis, comh- +‎ deas.

Pronunciation

Adjective

comhdheas (genitive singular masculine comhdheis, genitive singular feminine comhdheise, plural comhdheasa, comparative comhdheise)

  1. ambidextrous (having equal ability in both hands)
  2. (predicative only) convenient
  3. (obsolete, predicative only) unimportant, indifferent
    Synonym: cuma

Declension
Declension of comhdheas
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative comhdheas chomhdheas comhdheasa;
chomhdheasa²
Vocative chomhdheis comhdheasa
Genitive comhdheise comhdheasa comhdheas
Dative comhdheas;
chomhdheas¹		 chomhdheas;
chomhdheis (archaic)		 comhdheasa;
chomhdheasa²
Comparative níos comhdheise
Superlative is comhdheise

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
comhdheas chomhdheas gcomhdheas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. “comhdheas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 comdes”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 22

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