Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish cuindeog.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
cuinneog f (genitive singular cuinneoige, nominative plural cuinneoga)
- churn (vessel for churning)
Declension
Declension of cuinneog (second declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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cuinneog
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cuinneoga
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| vocative
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a chuinneog
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a chuinneoga
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| genitive
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cuinneoige
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cuinneog
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| dative
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cuinneog
cuinneoig (archaic, dialectal)
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cuinneoga
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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 chuinneog
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na cuinneoga
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| genitive
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na cuinneoige
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na gcuinneog
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| dative
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leis an gcuinneog
leis an gcuinneoig (archaic, dialectal)
don chuinneog
don chuinneoig (archaic, dialectal)
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leis na cuinneoga
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Descendants
Mutation
Mutated forms of cuinneog
| radical
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| cuinneog
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chuinneog
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gcuinneog
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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
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuinneóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 8
Further reading
- “cuinneog”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cuinneog”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 210
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuinneog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
