comhaireamh

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Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Irish comáirem (act of counting), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *rīmā (number). By surface analysis, comh- (common, collective) +‎ áireamh (count, counting, enumeration) and comhair +‎ -amh.

Noun[edit]

comhaireamh m (genitive singular as substantive comhairimh, genitive as verbal noun comhairthe, nominative plural comhairimh)

  1. verbal noun of comhair
  2. count, (act of) counting; calculation, reckoning

Declension[edit]

(as verbal noun):

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Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
comhaireamh chomhaireamh gcomhaireamh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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