Irish
Etymology
From cuise (“meadow grass”) + -óg.
Pronunciation
Noun
cuiseog f (genitive singular cuiseoige, nominative plural cuiseoga)
- stalk (stem or main axis of a plant)
Declension
Declension of cuiseog (second declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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cuiseog
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cuiseoga
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| vocative
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a chuiseog
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a chuiseoga
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| genitive
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cuiseoige
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cuiseog
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| dative
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cuiseog cuiseoig (archaic, dialectal)
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cuiseoga
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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 chuiseog
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na cuiseoga
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| genitive
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na cuiseoige
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na gcuiseog
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| dative
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leis an gcuiseog leis an gcuiseoig (archaic, dialectal) don chuiseog don chuiseoig (archaic, dialectal)
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leis na cuiseoga
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Derived terms
- cuiseogach
- cuiseog fhionn
Mutation
Mutated forms of cuiseog
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| cuiseog
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chuiseog
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gcuiseog
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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.
Further reading
- “cuiseog”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cuiseog”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 48