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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cocur (“consultation, secret discussion, whisper”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *konkoros, from *kom- + *koros (hence Welsh cyngor (“advice, counsel, discretion”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
cogar m (genitive singular cogair, nominative plural cogair)
- whisper (quiet talk)
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| cogar
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chogar
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gcogar
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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
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cocur”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 20
Further reading
Latin
Verb
cōgar
- first-person singular future passive indicative of cōgō