cogaint

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From cogain +‎ -t. Replaces Classical Gaelic cognamh from Old Irish cocnam, verbal noun of con·cná.[2]

Noun

cogaint f (genitive singular coganta)

  1. verbal noun of cogain
  2. act of chewing, mastication

Declension

Declension of cogaint (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative cogaint
vocative a chogaint
genitive coganta
dative cogaint
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an chogaint
genitive na coganta
dative leis an gcogaint
don chogaint

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cogaint
radical lenition eclipsis
cogaint chogaint gcogaint

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

References

  1. ^ “cogaint”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cocnam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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