comhaosta
Irish
Etymology
From comhaois (“equal, corresponding, age; person of same age; contemporary”) + -ta (adjectival suffix) or comh- (“fellow-; equal; close, near”) + aosta (“aged, old”).
Adjective
comhaosta
- of the same age; contemporary, coeval (le (“with”))
Related terms
- anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
- breacaosta (“fairly old”, adjective)
- bunaosta (“fairly old; middle-aged”, adjective)
- cnagaosta (“advanced in years, elderly”, adjective)
- críonaosta (“old and withered”, adjective)
- foraosta (“very old”, adjective)
- lánaosta (“of full age; rather old”, adjective)
- meánaosta (“middle-aged”, adjective)
- scothaosta (“fairly old, elderly”, adjective)
- tonnaosta (“getting on in years”, adjective)
- tromaosta (“of advanced age”, adjective)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| comhaosta | chomhaosta | gcomhaosta |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- "comhaosta" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.