cúigear

From Old Irish cóicer, possibly from cóic (“five”) + fer (“man”), though that may be a folk etymology.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːɟəɾˠ/

cúigear m (genitive singular cúigir, nominative plural cúigir) (triggers no mutation)

1. a group of five people

   Tá cúigear mac agam. ― I have five sons.

• Generally used with the genitive plural when referring to human beings and the preposition de when referring to other things.

• cúig (“five”) (non-personal)
• cúigréad (“quintet”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cúigear”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cóicer”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language