coinean

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Scottish Gaelic

Coinean.

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin cuniculus (“rabbit”). Cognate with Irish coinín and Manx conneeyn.

Pronunciation

Noun

coinean m (genitive singular coinein, plural coineanan)

  1. rabbit

Declension

Declension of coinean (type I masculine noun)
Indefinite
Singular Plural
Nominative coinean coineanan
Genitive coinein choineanan
Dative coinean coineanan; coineanaibh✝
Definite
Singular Plural
Nominative (an) coinean (na) coineanan
Genitive (a') choinein (nan) coineanan
Dative (a') choinean (na) coineanan; coineanaibh✝
Vocative choinein choineanan

✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

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Mutation

Mutation of coinean
radical lenition
coinean choinean

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

References

  • Colin Mark (2003) “coinean”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 156
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