comhaltas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish comaltas (“foster-brotherhood, intimate friendship; co-fosterage”), from comalta (“foster-brother, foster-sister”). By surface analysis, comhalta (“foster-brother, foster-sister; fellow, member”) +‎ -as.

Noun

comhaltas m (genitive singular comhaltais)

1. joint fosterage
2. body of persons, brotherhood
3. membership

Declension

Declension of comhaltas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative comhaltas vocative a chomhaltais genitive comhaltais dative comhaltas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an comhaltas genitive an chomhaltais dative leis an gcomhaltas don chomhaltas

Derived terms

• deartháir comhaltais (“foster-brother”)
• deirfiúr comhaltais (“foster-sister”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of comhaltas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
comhaltas	chomhaltas	gcomhaltas

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “comhaltas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “comhaltas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “comhaltas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025