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| Cardinal: cúig Ordinal: cúigiú Personal: cúigear | ||
From Middle Irish cóiced, from Old Irish cóiced, from Proto-Celtic *kʷenkʷetos. By surface analysis, cúig + -iú. In northern dialects (Ulster and Mayo) the historical form cúigeadh and the modern form cúigiú are homophonous, so the modern form can be considered simply a respelling to assimilate the word to the ordinal suffix -ú. In the dialects of Galway and Munster the modern form may be considered to have replaced the historical form, which was pronounced /ˈkuːɟə/.
cúigiú (not comparable)
| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | cúigiú | chúigiú | cúigiú; chúigiú2 | |
| vocative | chúigiú | cúigiú | ||
| genitive | cúigiú | cúigiú | cúigiú | |
| dative | cúigiú; chúigiú1 |
chúigiú | cúigiú; chúigiú2 | |
| Comparative | (not comparable) | |||
| Superlative | (not comparable) | |||
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
cúigiú m (genitive singular cúigiú, nominative plural cúigithe)
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| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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| cúigiú | chúigiú | gcúigiú |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.