cúigiú

Irish

Irish numbers (edit)
50
 ←  4 5 6  → 
    Cardinal: cúig
    Ordinal: cúigiú
    Personal: cúigear

Alternative forms

  • cúigeadh (superseded)
  • cúicceadh, cúigmhadh, cúigmheadh (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish cóiced, from Old Irish cóiced, from Proto-Celtic *kʷenkʷetos. By surface analysis, cúig +‎ -iú. In northern dialects (Ulster and Mayo) the historical form cúigeadh and the modern form cúigiú are homophonous, so the modern form can be considered simply a respelling to assimilate the word to the ordinal suffix -ú. In the dialects of Galway and Munster the modern form may be considered to have replaced the historical form, which was pronounced /ˈkuːɟə/.

Pronunciation

Adjective

cúigiú (not comparable)

  1. fifth

Declension

Declension of cúigiú
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative cúigiú chúigiú cúigiú;
chúigiú2
vocative chúigiú cúigiú
genitive cúigiú cúigiú cúigiú
dative cúigiú;
chúigiú1 		chúigiú cúigiú;
chúigiú2
Comparative (not comparable)
Superlative (not comparable)

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Noun

cúigiú m (genitive singular cúigiú, nominative plural cúigithe)

  1. a fifth

Declension

Declension of cúigiú (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cúigiú cúigithe
vocative a chúigiú a chúigithe
genitive cúigiú cúigithe
dative cúigiú cúigithe
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cúigiú na cúigithe
genitive an chúigiú na gcúigithe
dative leis an gcúigiú
don chúigiú 		leis na cúigithe

Mutation

Mutated forms of cúigiú
radical lenition eclipsis
cúigiú chúigiú gcúigiú

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

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.