coibhneas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish coibnius (“blood relationship”).

Noun

coibhneas m (genitive singular coibhnis, nominative plural coibhneasa)

1. kinship, affinity
2. comparative relationship, proportion

Declension

Declension of coibhneas (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative coibhneas coibhneasa vocative a choibhnis a choibhneasa genitive coibhnis coibhneas dative coibhneas coibhneasa forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an coibhneas na coibhneasa genitive an choibhnis na gcoibhneas dative leis an gcoibhneas don choibhneas leis na coibhneasa

Derived terms

• coibhneasach (“related”, adjective)
• coibhneasacht f (“relativity”)
• coibhneasaí m (“relativist”)

Related terms

• coibhneasta (“relative”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of coibhneas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
coibhneas	choibhneas	gcoibhneas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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