col ceathrair
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]col ceathrair m (genitive singular coil cheathrair, nominative plural colanna ceathrair)
Usage notes
[edit]- Term derives from the degree of separation between oneself and their first cousin, literally involving four persons (self, one's parent, that parent's sibling, that sibling's child).
See also
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| col ceathrair | chol ceathrair | gcol ceathrair |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “col ceathrair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “col ceathrair”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024