Irish

Alternative forms

• cómhnaidhe (superseded)
• cómhnaighe (superseded)

Noun

cónaí m ‎(genitive singular cónaithe, nominative plural cónaithe)

1. home, residence, abode
2. dwelling, domicile
3. resting place
4. verbal noun of cónaigh

   Tá mé i mo chónaí i mBaile Átha Cliath.‎ ― I live in Dublin.

   • 1906, E. C. Quiggin, “Áindrías an Ime”, in A Dialect of Donegal: Being the Speech of Meenawannia in the Parish of Glenties, page 196:

     Bhí Áindrías an Ime na chomhnaidhe i mBaile ui Mún i nGleann an Bhaile Dhuibh.

     Áindrías of the Butter lived in Ballymoon in Gleann an Bhaile Dhuibh.

Declension

Derived terms

• buanchónaí ‎(“permanent abode”)
• i gcónaí ‎(“always; continually; constantly; yet, still; ever”)

Related terms

• cónaigh ‎(“live (in, at), reside; dwell, abide; rest”)

Verb

cónaí

1. present subjunctive analytic of cónaigh

Mutation