cogain

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish cocnaid, from Old Irish con·cná,[1] from Proto-Celtic *kom-knāyeti (to bite, chew), from Proto-Indo-European *kneh₂- (to bite, gnaw). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cagainn, Manx caign and Welsh cnoi.

Pronunciation

Verb

cogain (present analytic cognaíonn, future analytic cognóidh, verbal noun cogaint, past participle coganta)

  1. to chew

Conjugation

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cogain
radical lenition eclipsis
cogain chogain gcogain

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “con·cnaí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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