concas

Irish

Alternative forms

  • cancas, concais, cuncas, cúncas
  • canncas, concus, conncas, conncus, cuncus, cunncas, cúnncas (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish cunncas, from Middle English conquest,[2] from Old French conqueste, from Vulgar Latin *conquista, from the feminine of Latin conquisitus.

Pronunciation

Noun

concas m (genitive singular concais, nominative plural concais)

  1. conquest

Declension

Declension of concas (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative concas concais
vocative a choncais a choncasa
genitive concais concas
dative concas concais
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an concas na concais
genitive an choncais na gconcas
dative leis an gconcas
don choncas 		leis na concais

Mutation

Mutated forms of concas
radical lenition eclipsis
concas choncas gconcas

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

References

  1. ^ “concas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “congcas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 41, page 22

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “canncas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 158; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “conncas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 245; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “concas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Latin

Noun

concās

  1. accusative plural of conca
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