cogain

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish cocnaid, from Old Irish con·cná,[1] from Proto-Celtic *kom-knāyeti (to bite, chew), from Proto-Indo-European *kneh₂- (to bite, gnaw). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cagainn, Manx caign and Welsh cnoi.

Pronunciation

Verb

cogain (present analytic cognaíonn, future analytic cognóidh, verbal noun cogaint, past participle coganta)

  1. to chew

Conjugation

  • Alternative verbal nouns: cognadh, cognamh

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cogain
radical lenition eclipsis
cogain chogain gcogain

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “con·cnaí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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