cochán

See also: cố chân and cổ chân

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

cochán m (genitive singular cocháin)

  1. straw (dried stalks considered collectively)
    Synonym: tuí

Declension

Declension of cochán (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative cochán
vocative a chocháin
genitive cocháin
dative cochán
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an cochán
genitive an chocháin
dative leis an gcochán
don chochán

Mutation

Mutated forms of cochán
radical lenition eclipsis
cochán chochán gcochán

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 23, page 12

Further reading

  • cochán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “coċán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 158
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cochán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN