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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *kʷenkʷe. Lengthening *e > *ē is expected, but the shift to /oː/ is not. From Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.[1]
Pronunciation
Numeral
cóic
- five
Quotations
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 127d6
in tan ro·mmemaid ré nAbracham forsna cóic ríga bertar Loth a Sodaim- when the five kings who carried Lot from Sodom had been routed by Abraham
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of cóic
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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| cóic
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chóic
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cóic
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1987) “cóic”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page C-142f.
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