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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish coicrích (“border, march, neighbouring or foreign territory”), from com- + crích (“boundary, limit, end”). Cognate Manx cagliagh.
Pronunciation
Noun
coigríoch f (genitive singular coigríoche, nominative plural coigríocha)
- (literary) neighbouring place
- strange place, foreign country
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| coigríoch
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choigríoch
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gcoigríoch
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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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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coigríoch”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coigríoch”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language