coisí

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish coisige.[1] By surface analysis, cois +‎ -í.

Noun

coisí m (genitive singular coisí, nominative plural coisithe)

  1. walker, pedestrian; (foot-)traveller
  2. (military) foot soldier, infantryman
    Synonym: saighdiúir coise
  3. pedestal (of camera)
    Synonym: coisí ceamara

Declension

Declension of coisí (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative coisí coisithe
vocative a choisí a choisithe
genitive coisí coisithe
dative coisí coisithe
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an coisí na coisithe
genitive an choisí na gcoisithe
dative leis an gcoisí
don choisí 		leis na coisithe

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of coisí
radical lenition eclipsis
coisí choisí gcoisí

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), “coisige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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