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Irish
- coicthigheas (superseded)
- caoicidhis, caoicís, cóicidhis, coicíos, cóicíos, cóicís, coicthidhis, coicthighis, cóicthighis, coigdhís, cóigthidhis, coigthigheas, coigthighis (obsolete)[1]
- coighcíos (Munster)
Etymology
From Old Irish cóicthiges, apparently a compound of cóic (“five”) and deich (“ten”); compare Welsh pythefnos (“fortnight”, literally “fifteen nights”) and Breton pemzektez (“fortnight”, literally “fifteen days”).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
coicís f (genitive singular coicíse, nominative plural coicísí or coicíseacha)
- fortnight
1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 146:tā šē imī lē kaikīš.- [Tá sé imithe le coicís.]
- He’s been gone for a fortnight.
ȷ imə šē kaikīš ō hin.- [D’imigh sé coicís ó shin.]
- He left a fortnight ago.
1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 194:Do bhí coighcíos acu i dteannta a chéile go cómpórdach, ach aon tráthnóna amháin ghaibh an captaen amach, agus Máire le n-a chois.- They had a fortnight together comfortably, but one evening the captain went out, and Mary along with him.
Declension
Alternative plural: coicíseacha
Derived terms
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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coicís
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choicís
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gcoicís
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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
- ^ “coicís”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cóicthiges”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, page 189
- ^ O'Siadhail, Micheal (1988) Learning Irish, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 35
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 28
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 41
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “coicthigheas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 159
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coicís”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “coicís”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “coicís”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024