comhaireamh
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish comáirem (“act of counting”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *rīmā (“number”); synchronically, comh- (“common, collective”) + áireamh (“count, counting, enumeration”).
Noun
comhaireamh m (genitive singular comhairimh or comhairthe, nominative plural comhairimh)
- verbal noun of comhair
- count, (act of) counting; calculation, reckoning
Declension
Declension of comhaireamh
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Declension of comhaireamh
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Synonyms
Mutation
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comhaireamh | chomhaireamh | gcomhaireamh |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comáirem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Template:R:ga:Dinneen
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “comhaireamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN