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From Middle Irish comarsa f (“neighbour; neighbourhood”).
comharsa f (genitive singular comharsan, nominative plural comharsana or comharsain)
- neighbour
- Always grammatically feminine, regardless of the gender of the neighbour in question.
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 128, page 68
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- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 40, page 18
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comarsa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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