cobais
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin cōnfessiō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cobais f (genitive coibsen, nominative plural coibsin)
- (Christianity) confession (of sin)
- confidence, secret
Inflection
[edit]Feminine n-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | cobais | coibsinL | coibsin |
Vocative | cobais | coibsinL | coibsenaH |
Accusative | coibsinN | coibsinL | coibsenaH |
Genitive | coibsen | coibsenL | coibsenN |
Dative | coibsinL, cobaisL | coibsenaib | coibsenaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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cobais | chobais | cobais pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cobais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language