comair

== Old Irish == === Etymology === Uncertain. Perhaps a Welsh loanword. Cognate with Welsh ar gyfair (“opposite”), Breton e-keñver (“opposite”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈko.β̃əɾʲ/ (Blasse) [ˈko.β̃ɪɾʲ] (Griffith) [ˈko.β̃ɨɾʲ] === Preposition === comair [with genitive] in front of Synonyms: ar, re c. 850, glosses on the Second Epistle of Peter, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, p. 713, line 28[1], 93b12: in the company of (with i) Synonym: i lleth ==== Descendants ==== Middle Irish: comair Irish: comhair Scottish Gaelic: comhair === Mutation === === References === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language