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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish colg, from Proto-Celtic *kolgā (compare Middle Welsh coly, Cornish colgh), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat, break”)
Pronunciation
Noun
colg m (genitive singular coilg, nominative plural coilg)
- beard, awn (long or stiff hairs on a plant)
- (literary) sword
- Synonym: claíomh
- point (sharp tip of a weapon)
- bristle
- Synonyms: guaire, ribe
- prickle (small, sharp pointed object, especially on an animal)
- Synonyms: dealg, spíon
- irritability (state or quality of being irritable)
- Synonyms: cantal, meirg
- rage, fury, anger
- Synonyms: cuthach, fearg
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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| colg
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cholg
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gcolg
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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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References
Further reading
- “colg”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “colg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “colg”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 170
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “colg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 53
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 21