cógas

See also: cogas

Irish

Alternative forms

  • cógais f, comhgais f, cóngais f
  • comhgas, cóngas
  • cómhgas, comhgus, cómhgus, cómhgus (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish comcaisiu (“examination”), verbal noun of con·aicci (“to examine”).[2]

Pronunciation

  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkũːɡəʃ/[3] (corresponding to the form cóngais); /ˈkũːɡəs/[4] (corresponding to the form cóngas)

Noun

cógas m (genitive singular cógais, nominative plural cógais)

  1. medication
  2. medicine
    Synonyms: cógas leighis, leigheas
  3. pharmaceutical
    Synonyms: cógaisíocht, earra cógaisíochta

Declension

Declension of cógas (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cógas cógais
vocative a chógais a chógasa
genitive cógais cógas
dative cógas cógais
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cógas na cógais
genitive an chógais na gcógas
dative leis an gcógas
don chógas 		leis na cógais

Derived terms

  • cófra cógas (“medicine cabinet”)
  • cógaiseoir (“pharmacist”)
  • cógaisíocht (“pharmacy; pharmaceutics”)
  • cógas casachta (“cough mixture”)
  • cógas frithdhúlagair (“antidepressant”)
  • cógas frithmhaláireach (“antimalarial”)
  • cógas paitinne (“patent medicine”)
  • cógaseolaí (“pharmacologist”)
  • cógaseolaíoch (“pharmaceutical”, adjective)
  • cógaseolaíocht (“pharmacology”)
  • cógaslann (“pharmacy”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cógas
radical lenition eclipsis
cógas chógas gcógas

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

References

  1. ^ “cógas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comcaisiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 172, page 65
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 303, page 107

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