comórtas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish commórtas (“comparison, competition, rivalry”), from commórad (“act of honouring, exalting in; act of helping, furthering, re-inforcing; act of celebrating, holding, waging (of functions, hunts, battles etc.); act of comparing”), verbal noun of commóraid (“holds, engages in (of battle, feast, hunt, etc.), celebrates, convenes”), from com- + móraid (“makes great, magnifies, exalts, glorifies; makes greater, increases; assembles, musters, convokes”).

Noun

comórtas m (genitive singular comórtais, nominative plural comórtais)

Declension

Declension of comórtas

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	comórtas	comórtais
Vocative	a chomórtais	a chomórtasa
Genitive	comórtais	comórtas
Dative	comórtas	comórtais

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an comórtas	na comórtais
Genitive	an chomórtais	na gcomórtas
Dative	leis an gcomórtas don chomórtas	leis na comórtais

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
comórtas	chomórtas	gcomórtas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"comórtas" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“commórtas” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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