coinsias

Irish

Alternative forms

  • coinsiasa

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English conscience, itself borrowed from Old French, from Latin cōnscientia.

Pronunciation

  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈkonʲʃiːsˠ/[1]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkʌn̠ʲʃiəsˠ/[2]; /ˈkʌn̠ʲʃəsˠə/ (corresponding to the form coinsiasa)[3]

Noun

coinsias m (genitive singular coinsiasa, nominative plural coinsiasaí)

  1. conscience

Declension

Declension of coinsias (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative coinsias coinsiasaí
vocative a choinsias a choinsiasaí
genitive coinsiasa coinsiasaí
dative coinsias coinsiasaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an coinsias na coinsiasaí
genitive an choinsiasa na gcoinsiasaí
dative leis an gcoinsias
don choinsias 		leis na coinsiasaí
  • Variant genitive singular: coinsiais

Derived terms

  • coinsiasach (“conscientious”, adjective)
  • coinsiasacht (“conscientiousness”)
  • priocadh coinsiasa (“prick of conscience”)
  • saoirse coinsiasa (“liberty of conscience”)
  • scrúdú coinsiasa (“examination of conscience”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of coinsias
radical lenition eclipsis
coinsias choinsias gcoinsias

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

References

  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 158
  2. ^ Hughes, A. J. (1986) The Gaelic of Tangaveane and Commeen, County Donegal (texts, phonology, aspects of grammar and a vocabulary) (doctoral thesis), Faculty of Arts, Queen’s University of Belfast, page 427
  3. ^ Sommerfelt, Alf (1922) The Dialect of Torr, County Donegal, volume I: Phonology, Christiania [Oslo]: Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania, section 278, page 94

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