comhlacht
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish cumlucht (“accomplices, companions”), from com- (modern comh-) + lucht (“people, class of persons, category”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
comhlacht m (genitive singular comhlachta, nominative plural comhlachtaí)
- body (association, organization, institution)
- Synonyms: comhlachas, foras
- company, firm
Declension
Declension of comhlacht
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- bratchomhlacht (“umbrella body”)
- comhlacht drugaí (“drug company”)
- comhlacht stoic (“stock company”)
- fochomhlacht (“subsidiary company”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| comhlacht | chomhlacht | gcomhlacht |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “comhlacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comlucht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “complacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “comhlacht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “comhlacht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024