cogadh

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Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish cocad (“war, conflict; act of waging war”). By surface analysis, cog +‎ -adh, but historically the verb is a back-formation from the noun.

Pronunciation

Noun

cogadh m (genitive singular cogaidh, nominative plural cogaí or cogaíocha)

  1. war, warfare
    Ní buan cogadh na gcarad.
    A quarrel between friends is soon healed. (proverb)
  2. verbal noun of cog
Declension
Declension of cogadh (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cogadh cogaí
vocative a chogaidh a chogaí
genitive cogaidh cogaí
dative cogadh cogaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cogadh na cogaí
genitive an chogaidh na gcogaí
dative leis an gcogadh
don chogadh 		leis na cogaí
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Verb

cogadh

  1. past indicative autonomous of cog

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Verb

cogadh

  1. inflection of cog:
    1. past subjunctive analytic
    2. third-person singular imperative

Mutation

Mutated forms of cogadh
radical lenition eclipsis
cogadh chogadh gcogadh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cocad (“war, conflict; act of waging war”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cogadh m (genitive singular cogaidh, plural cogaidhean)

  1. verbal noun of cog
  2. war, fighting, warfare

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of cogadh
radical lenition
cogadh chogadh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cogadh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cocad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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