cónaí

• comhnaidhe, cómhnaidhe, comhnaighe, cómhnaighe, comhnuidhe, cómhnuidhe, comhnuighe, cómhnuighe (superseded) (both noun and verb form)

From Old Irish comnaide. Compare Scottish Gaelic còmhnaidh.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /koːˈn̪ˠiː/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːnˠiː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːnˠi/

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.

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

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

cónaí

1. present subjunctive analytic of cónaigh

• “comnaide” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “coṁnuiḋe” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 177.
• "cónaí" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “cónaí” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “cónaí” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• “cónaí” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.