corpartha

Irish

Alternative forms

• corpardha, corpordha, corporrdha, corportha

Etymology

From Middle Irish corpurda, from Old Irish corpardae. By surface analysis, corpar- +‎ -tha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾˠpˠəɾˠə/

Adjective

corpartha

1. corporal, bodily
2. physical, corporeal
3. actual (factual, real, not just apparent or even false)

Declension

Declension of corpartha

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	corpartha	chorpartha	corpartha; chorpartha2
vocative	chorpartha		corpartha
genitive		corpartha	corpartha	corpartha
dative	corpartha; chorpartha1	chorpartha	corpartha; chorpartha2
Comparative	níos corpartha
Superlative	is corpartha

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

• corparthacht
• pionós corpartha (“corporal punishment”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of corpartha

radical	lenition	eclipsis
corpartha	chorpartha	gcorpartha

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

Further reading

• “corpartha”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “corporda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “corparḋa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 183
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “corpartha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 47