collaí

See also: collai

Irish

Alternative forms

• collaidhe, colnaidhe (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish collaide, from Old Irish colnide (“corporeal; carnal”). By surface analysis, colainn +‎ -aí.

Adjective

collaí

1. sexual (of sex)

   Synonyms: gnéasach, gnéis

2. carnal

   Synonyms: craicinn, na colainne

3. (euphemistic) intimate (sexual)

   Synonym: gnéasach

Derived terms

• caidreamh collaí
• collaíocht
• fios collaí

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of collaí

radical	lenition	eclipsis
collaí	chollaí	gcollaí

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