comhluadar

Irish

Etymology

From comh- +‎ luadar.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /koːˈl̪ˠuəd̪ˠəɾˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkoːlˠuəd̪ˠəɾˠ/, /ˈkoːl̪ˠuəd̪ˠəɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːlˠuəd̪ˠəɾˠ/, /ˈkɔːl̪ˠuəd̪ˠəɾˠ/

Noun

comhluadar m (genitive singular comhluadar, nominative plural comhluadair)

1. (social) company
2. party (group of people travelling or attending an event together)

   D'imigh an comhluadar

   The party departed.

3. family, household

   An bhfuil an comhluadar ar fad go maith?

   Are all the family well?

Declension

Declension of comhluadar (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative comhluadar vocative a chomhluadair genitive comhluadair dative comhluadar forms with the definite article case singular nominative an comhluadar genitive an chomhluadair dative leis an gcomhluadar don chomhluadar

Derived terms

• comhluadrach
• comhluadracht
• i gcomhluadar
• déan comhluadar le
• coinnigh comhluadar le

Mutation

Mutated forms of comhluadar

radical	lenition	eclipsis
comhluadar	chomhluadar	gcomhluadar

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) “comhluadar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 68