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Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish cóic, from Proto-Celtic *kʷinkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.
Pronunciation
Numeral
còig
- five
Derived terms
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “còig”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cóic”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language