cothálach

Irish

Adjective

cothálach (genitive singular masculine cothálaigh, genitive singular feminine cothálaí, plural cothálacha, comparative cothálaí)

1. Alternative form of cothabhálach (“sustaining, nourishing; productive of sustenance”)

Declension

Declension of cothálach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	cothálach	chothálach	cothálacha; chothálacha2
vocative	chothálaigh		cothálacha
genitive		cothálaí	cothálacha	cothálach
dative	cothálach; chothálach1	chothálach; chothálaigh (archaic)	cothálacha; chothálacha2
Comparative	níos cothálaí
Superlative	is cothálaí

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of cothálach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cothálach	chothálach	gcothálach

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) “cothálach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN