cucól

Irish

Alternative forms

  • cocóil, cocól[1]

Etymology

From Old French cucuault; cognate with English cuckold.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /kʊˈkoːl̪ˠ/

Noun

cucól m (genitive singular cucóil, nominative plural cucóil)

  1. cuckold
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 196:
      « Ó, a dhuine uasail », arsan máta, « nár chuiris do long i ngeall liom go raibh do bhean dílis duit? Sin comhartha agat go bhfuileann tú id’ chucól agam ».
      “Oh, sir,” said the mate, “didn’t you bet me your ship that your wife was faithful to you? Here is the proof that I have made you a cuckold.”

Declension

Declension of cucól (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cucól cucóil
vocative a chucóil a chucóla
genitive cucóil cucól
dative cucól cucóil
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cucól na cucóil
genitive an chucóil na gcucól
dative leis an gcucól
don chucól 		leis na cucóil

Mutation

Mutated forms of cucól
radical lenition eclipsis
cucól chucól gcucól

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

References

  1. ^ “cocól”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

Further reading

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