comhla

See also: còmhla

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish comla (“valve of door, window, etc.”).

Pronunciation

Noun

comhla f (genitive singular comhla or comhlach or comhladh, nominative plural comhlaí or comhlacha or comhlain)

  1. leaf (of a door)
    Synonym: comhla dorais
  2. (architecture, photography, etc.) shutter
  3. (anatomy, botany, conchology) valve

Declension
Declension of comhla

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative comhla comhlaí
Vocative a chomhla a chomhlaí
Genitive comhla comhlaí
Dative comhla comhlaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an chomhla na comhlaí
Genitive na comhla na gcomhlaí
Dative leis an gcomhla

don chomhla

 leis na comhlaí

Derived terms
  • aerchomhla (“air-valve”)
  • aonchomhlach (“univalve”)
  • bualchomhla
  • canáil chomhlaí (“sluiceway”)
  • comhla ar insí (“hinged door(-leaf)”)
  • comhla bheag (“half-door”)
  • comhla bheannach (“mitral valve”)
  • comhla chatha (“mainstay in battle”)
  • comhla choigeartaithe (“rectifying valve”)
  • comhla chumhachta (“power-valve”)
  • comhla croí (“valve of heart”)
  • comhla cuisle (“valve of vein”)
  • comhla ghreadta (“clack-valve”)
  • comhla haiste (“hatch-cover”)
  • comhla ionraoin (“inlet-valve”)
  • comhla loic
  • comhla mhuinchille (“sleeve-valve”)
  • comhla orgáin (“shutter of organ”)
  • comhla rialaithe (“governor-valve”)
  • comhla scamhóige (“pulmonary valve”)
  • comhla sceite (“safety-valve”)
  • comhla shleamhnáin (“sliding door”)
  • comhla shúite (“suction-valve”)
  • comhla thógála (“trap-door”)
  • comhla uisce
  • comhlach (“valvular”)
  • fuinneog chomhla (“casement-window”)
  • gan chomhla (“unconditional”)
  • loc-chomhla (“sluice-valve, floodgate”)

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

References
  1. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 68
  2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 18

Further reading
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