coimhdeacht

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish coimitecht, comaitecht, coimdecht (“act of going together; act of agreeing with, favouring, conniving at, etc.; act of accompanying, escorting, protecting”), verbal noun of con·éitet (“goes with, accompanies; agrees with, yields to, indulges, connives at, spares, allows”).

Noun

coimhdeacht f (genitive singular coimhdeachta)

1. accompaniment, companionship
   1. (as verbal noun, ag ~) accompanying, escorting
2. concomitance
3. subsidiarity

Declension

Declension of coimhdeacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative coimhdeacht vocative a choimhdeacht genitive coimhdeachta dative coimhdeacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an choimhdeacht genitive na coimhdeachta dative leis an gcoimhdeacht don choimhdeacht

Derived terms

• aingeal coimhdeachta (“guardian angel”)
• bean choimhdeachta (“lady's maid, lady-in-waiting; chaperon”)
• coimhdeacht a dhéanamh ar dhuine (“to accompany, escort, someone; to chaperon someone”)
• deamhan coimhdeachta (“familiar spirit; evil genius”)
• lucht coimhdeachta (“retinue, attendants”)
• pláinéad coimhdeachta (“satellite”) (planet)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of coimhdeacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
coimhdeacht	choimhdeacht	gcoimhdeacht

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