coráiste

Irish

Alternative forms

  • cráiste
  • coráisde, cráisde (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle English corage, from Old French corage, from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor (“heart”).

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /kəˈɾˠɑːʃtʲə/ ~ /ˈkɾˠɑːʃtʲə/[2][3]

Noun

coráiste m (genitive singular coráiste)

  1. (dated) courage
  2. gall (impudence, brazenness)

Declension

Declension of coráiste (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative coráiste
vocative a choráiste
genitive coráiste
dative coráiste
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an coráiste
genitive an choráiste
dative leis an gcoráiste
don choráiste

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of coráiste
radical lenition eclipsis
coráiste choráiste gcoráiste

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

References

  1. ^ “coráiste”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 230, page 116
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 279, page 139

Further reading

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