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

Terms related to comhaosta

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.

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