cóic

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷenkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.[1] Lengthening *e > *ē is expected, but the shift to /oː/ is not.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [koːɡʲ]

Numeral

Old Irish cardinal numbers
 <  4 5 6  > 
    Cardinal : cóic
    Ordinal : cóiced
    Personal : cóicer

cóic

  1. five

Quotations

  • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 127d6
    in tan ro·mmemaid ré nAbracham forsna cóic ríga bertar Loth a Sodaim
    when the five kings who carried Lot from Sodom had been routed by Abraham

Descendants

  • Irish: cúig
  • Manx: queig
  • Scottish Gaelic: còig

Mutation

Mutation of cóic
radical lenition nasalization
cóic chóic cóic
pronounced with /ɡ-/

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

References

  1. ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1987) “cóic”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page C-142f.

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