coitchenn

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kom-teges-nos.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Adjective

coitchenn

  1. common, mutual, shared
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14d12
      Is coitchen do cechtar de ainm alaili.
      Common to each of them is the name of the other.

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:coitchenn.

Inflection

o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative coitchenn coitchenn coitchenn
Vocative coitchinn*
coitchenn**
Accusative coitchenn coitchinn
Genitive coitchinn coitchinne coitchinn
Dative coitchiunn coitchinn coitchiunn
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative coitchinn coitchenna
Vocative coitchennu
coitchenna†
Accusative coitchennu
coitchenna†
Genitive coitchenn
Dative coitchennaib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation

Mutation of coitchenn
radical lenition nasalization
coitchen choitchen coitchen
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

References

  1. ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1987) Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique
  2. ^ O’Rahilly, T. F. (1942) “Notes, Mainly Etymological”, in Ériu, volume 13, page 158

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