coguas

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cocúas (“concavity”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

coguas m (genitive singular coguais, nominative plural coguais)

  1. soft palate, velum
  2. cavity (oral, nasal etc.)

Declension

Declension of coguas (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative coguas coguais
vocative a choguais a choguasa
genitive coguais coguas
dative coguas coguais
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an coguas na coguais
genitive an choguais na gcoguas
dative leis an gcoguas
don choguas 		leis na coguais

Derived terms

  • coguasach (“velar”)
  • cuas (“cavity, hollow”)

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cocúas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 48, page 22

Further reading

  • “coguas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “coguas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 219; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coguas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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