acomhal

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish accomol (“act of joining, bringing together; junction, meeting, union”), verbal noun of ad·comla (“joins, unites”).

Noun

acomhal m (genitive singular acomhail, nominative plural acomhail)

1. joining, juncture
2. junction

Declension

Declension of acomhal (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative acomhal acomhail vocative a acomhail a acomhala genitive acomhail acomhal dative acomhal acomhail forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-acomhal na hacomhail genitive an acomhail na n-acomhal dative leis an acomhal don acomhal leis na hacomhail

Derived terms

• acomhal bóithre m (“road junction”)
• acomhal bosca buí m (“box junction”)
• acomhal busanna m (“bus interchange”)
• acomhal céimnithe m (“staggered junction”)
• acomhal iarnróid m (“railway junction”)
• acomhal mótarbhealaigh m (“motorway junction”)
• acomhal mótarbhealaí m (“motorway interchange”)
• acomhal spaigití m (“spaghetti junction”)
• acomhal trasnaisc m (“crossover junction”)
• acomhal trí bhealach m (“three-way junction”)
• acomhlach (“conjunctive”, adjective)
• stáisiún acomhail m (“junction station”)
• T-acomhal m (“T-junction, T-intersection”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of acomhal

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
acomhal	n-acomhal	hacomhal	t-acomhal

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “acomhal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “accomol”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “acomhal”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024