coimhdeacht

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish coimitecht, comaitecht, coimdecht (“act of going together; act of agreeing with, favouring, conniving at, etc.; act of accompanying, escorting, protecting”), verbal noun of con·éitet (“goes with, accompanies; agrees with, yields to, indulges, connives at, spares, allows”).

Noun

coimhdeacht f (genitive singular coimhdeachta)

1. accompaniment, companionship
   1. (as verbal noun, ag ~) accompanying, escorting
2. concomitance
3. subsidiarity

Declension

Declension of coimhdeacht

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative coimhdeacht Vocative a choimhdeacht Genitive coimhdeachta Dative coimhdeacht

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an choimhdeacht Genitive na coimhdeachta Dative leis an gcoimhdeacht don choimhdeacht

Derived terms

• aingeal coimhdeachta (“guardian angel”)
• bean choimhdeachta (“lady's maid, lady-in-waiting; chaperon”)
• coimhdeacht a dhéanamh ar dhuine (“to accompany, escort, someone; to chaperon someone”)
• deamhan coimhdeachta (“familiar spirit; evil genius”)
• lucht coimhdeachta (“retinue, attendants”)
• pláinéad coimhdeachta (“satellite”) (planet)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
coimhdeacht	choimhdeacht	gcoimhdeacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coimhdeacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coimitecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language