colg

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish colg,[2] from Proto-Celtic *kolgā (compare Middle Welsh coly, Cornish colgh), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat, break”)[3]

Pronunciation

Noun

colg m (genitive singular coilg, nominative plural coilg)

  1. beard, awn (long or stiff hairs on a plant)
  2. (literary) sword
    Synonym: claíomh
  3. point (sharp tip of a weapon)
  4. bristle
    Synonyms: guaire, ribe
  5. prickle (small, sharp pointed object, especially on an animal)
    Synonyms: dealg, spíon
  6. irritability (state or quality of being irritable)
    Synonyms: cantal, meirg
  7. rage, fury, anger
    Synonyms: cuthach, fearg

Declension

Declension of colg (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative colg coilg
vocative a choilg a cholga
genitive coilg colg
dative colg coilg
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an colg na coilg
genitive an choilg na gcolg
dative leis an gcolg
don cholg 		leis na coilg

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of colg
radical lenition eclipsis
colg cholg gcolg

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

References

  1. ^ “colg”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “colg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 212
  4. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 38, page 21
  5. ^ Mhac an Fhailigh, Éamonn (1968) The Irish of Erris, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 72, page 19
  6. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 138, page 53

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