coirm

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cuirm, from Proto-Celtic *kurmi. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cuirm.

Pronunciation

Noun

coirm f (genitive singular coirme, nominative plural coirmeacha)

  1. feast, banquet
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 162:
      kivnīm gərəb ē šin køŕm̥ n̥ l̄ē rugəv ē.
      [Cuimhním gurb é sin coirm an lae a rugadh é.]
      I remember it was his birthday party.
  2. ale, beer

Declension

Declension of coirm (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative coirm coirmeacha
vocative a choirm a choirmeacha
genitive coirme coirmeacha
dative coirm coirmeacha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an choirm na coirmeacha
genitive na coirme na gcoirmeacha
dative leis an gcoirm
don choirm 		leis na coirmeacha

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Mutation

Mutated forms of coirm
radical lenition eclipsis
coirm choirm gcoirm

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

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