Irish
- coingeal, cuingreach, cuingealach, cuingeal[1]
Etymology
From Middle Irish coingir, from the same root as cuing.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkiɲəɾʲ/[3], /ˈkɪɲəɾʲ/[4]
Noun
cuingir f (genitive singular cuingreach, nominative plural cuingreacha)
- yoke, pair, team (two animals yoked or fettered together)
Declension
Declension of cuingir (fifth declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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cuingir
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cuingreacha
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| vocative
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a chuingir
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a chuingreacha
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| genitive
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cuingreach
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cuingreacha
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| dative
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cuingir
cuingrigh (archaic, dialectal)
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cuingreacha
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| forms with the definite article
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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an chuingir
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na cuingreacha
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| genitive
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na cuingreach
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na gcuingreacha
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| dative
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leis an gcuingir
leis an gcuingrigh (archaic, dialectal)
don chuingir
don chuingrigh (archaic, dialectal)
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leis na cuingreacha
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Mutation
Mutated forms of cuingir
| radical
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| cuingir
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chuingir
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gcuingir
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ “cuingir”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuingir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 153
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 306, page 108
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