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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish comcaisiu (“examination”), verbal noun of con·aicci (“to examine”).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
cógas m (genitive singular cógais, nominative plural cógais)
- medication
- medicine
- Synonyms: cógas leighis, leigheas
- pharmaceutical
- Synonyms: cógaisíocht, earra cógaisíochta
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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cógas
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chógas
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gcógas
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ “cógas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comcaisiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 172, page 65
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 303, page 107
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cóngas, cógas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cógas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cógas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cógas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024