"comair" meaning in All languages combined

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Preposition [Old Irish]

IPA: /ˈko.β̃əɾʲ/ Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], comair [mutation, mutation-radical], chomair [lenition, mutation], comair [error-unrecognized-form, mutation]
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a Welsh loanword. Cognate with Welsh ar gyfair (“opposite”), Breton e-keñver (“opposite”). Etymology templates: {{unc|sga}} Uncertain, {{cog|cy|ar gyfair|t=opposite}} Welsh ar gyfair (“opposite”), {{cog|br|e-keñver|t=opposite}} Breton e-keñver (“opposite”) Head templates: {{head|sga|preposition}} comair Inflection templates: {{sga-mutation}}
  1. in front of Synonyms: ar, re
    Sense id: en-comair-sga-prep-TY7IuR1u Categories (other): Old Irish prepositions, Old Irish prepositions governing the genitive Disambiguation of Old Irish prepositions: 63 37 Disambiguation of Old Irish prepositions governing the genitive: 86 14
  2. in the company of (with i) Synonyms: i lleth
    Sense id: en-comair-sga-prep-wj7SCMXm
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Old Irish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Old Irish entries with incorrect language header: 0 0 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 0 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 0
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      "_dis": "0 0",
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          "lang_code": "ga",
          "word": "comhair"
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      "word": "comair"
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        "2": "ar gyfair",
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sga-mutation",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "comair",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "mutation",
        "mutation-radical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chomair",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition",
        "mutation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "comair",
      "source": "mutation",
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        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "mutation"
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    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "sga-mutation"
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          "genitive"
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    }
  ],
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          "_dis": "63 37",
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          "_dis": "86 14",
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          "name": "Old Irish prepositions governing the genitive",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
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        {
          "english": "is not the Judgment before every one?",
          "roman": "cain ata brad comair caich",
          "text": "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 28https://archive.org/details/thesauruspalaeoh01stokuoft/page/712/mode/2up, 93b12",
          "translation": "is not the Judgment before every one?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "in front of"
      ],
      "id": "en-comair-sga-prep-TY7IuR1u",
      "links": [
        [
          "in front of",
          "in front of"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ar"
        },
        {
          "word": "re"
        }
      ]
    },
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        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              29,
              38
            ]
          ],
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            [
              26,
              43
            ]
          ],
          "english": "(?) ye were not sorrowful\nin the company of your tender exile,\nthe lord of the clear bright sun,\nmost eminent the outlaw.",
          "ref": "c. 760, Blathmac mac Con Brettan, stanza 23; published in \"A study of the lexicon of the poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan\" (2017; PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth), edited and with translations by Siobhán Barrett :",
          "text": "†Nond babair† níbar toirsich\nhi comair for móethloingsich,\ncoimdiu gréine gile glé,\noirdnidiu in fócarthae",
          "translation": "(?) ye were not sorrowful\nin the company of your tender exile,\nthe lord of the clear bright sun,\nmost eminent the outlaw.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "in the company of (with i)"
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      "id": "en-comair-sga-prep-wj7SCMXm",
      "links": [
        [
          "company",
          "company"
        ],
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          "i",
          "i#Old_Irish"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "i lleth"
        }
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/ˈko.β̃əɾʲ/"
    },
    {
      "note": "Blasse",
      "other": "[ˈko.β̃ɪɾʲ]"
    },
    {
      "note": "Griffith",
      "other": "[ˈko.β̃ɨɾʲ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "comair"
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  "etymology_text": "Uncertain. Perhaps a Welsh loanword. Cognate with Welsh ar gyfair (“opposite”), Breton e-keñver (“opposite”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sga-mutation",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "comair",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "mutation",
        "mutation-radical"
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    },
    {
      "form": "chomair",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition",
        "mutation"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "comair",
      "source": "mutation",
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        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "mutation"
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old Irish",
  "lang_code": "sga",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "is not the Judgment before every one?",
          "roman": "cain ata brad comair caich",
          "text": "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 28https://archive.org/details/thesauruspalaeoh01stokuoft/page/712/mode/2up, 93b12",
          "translation": "is not the Judgment before every one?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "in front of"
      ],
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        [
          "in front of",
          "in front of"
        ]
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        {
          "word": "ar"
        },
        {
          "word": "re"
        }
      ]
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              29,
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              26,
              43
            ]
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          "english": "(?) ye were not sorrowful\nin the company of your tender exile,\nthe lord of the clear bright sun,\nmost eminent the outlaw.",
          "ref": "c. 760, Blathmac mac Con Brettan, stanza 23; published in \"A study of the lexicon of the poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan\" (2017; PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth), edited and with translations by Siobhán Barrett :",
          "text": "†Nond babair† níbar toirsich\nhi comair for móethloingsich,\ncoimdiu gréine gile glé,\noirdnidiu in fócarthae",
          "translation": "(?) ye were not sorrowful\nin the company of your tender exile,\nthe lord of the clear bright sun,\nmost eminent the outlaw.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "in the company of (with i)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "company",
          "company"
        ],
        [
          "i",
          "i#Old_Irish"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "i lleth"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈko.β̃əɾʲ/"
    },
    {
      "note": "Blasse",
      "other": "[ˈko.β̃ɪɾʲ]"
    },
    {
      "note": "Griffith",
      "other": "[ˈko.β̃ɨɾʲ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "comair"
}

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