Fromcomhaois(“equal, corresponding, age; person of same age; contemporary”) +-ta(adjectival suffix) orcomh-(“fellow-; equal; close, near”) +aosta(“aged, old”).
comhaosta
- of the sameage;contemporary,coeval(le(“with”))
- 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)
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
