coinleach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From connall (“stalk, stubble”) +‎ -ach.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

coinleach m (genitive singular coinligh)

  1. stubble (short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested)

Declension

Declension of coinleach (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative coinleach
vocative a choinligh
genitive coinligh
dative coinleach
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an coinleach
genitive an choinligh
dative leis an gcoinleach
don choinleach

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of coinleach
radical lenition eclipsis
coinleach choinleach gcoinleach

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

References

  1. ^ “coinleach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “connlach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Ó Cuív, Brian (1968) The Irish of West Muskerry, Co. Cork: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 154, page 46; reprinted 1988
  4. ^ de Búrca, Seán (1958) The Irish of Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 133, page 27
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 24

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