cuach

• IPA^(key): /kuəx/^[1]

From Old Irish caí,^[2] cúach (“cuckoo”), caí (“act of weeping; wailing, lamentation”).

cuach f (genitive singular cuaiche, nominative plural cuacha)

1. cuckoo
2. (music, ~ (cheoil)) strain of music; snatch of song
3. alto, falsetto (voice); whoop; (of horse) whinny; whine; sigh, sob

From Old Irish cuäch, cúach (“goblet”),^[3] from Proto-Celtic *kaɸukos (“cup”) (compare Welsh cawg (“cup, goblet, bowl”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to seize, hold”).

cuach m (genitive singular cuach, nominative plural cuacha)

1. bowl; goblet, drinking-cup
2. dome (of head)

From Old Irish cúach (“fastener; lock of hair”),^[4] from the root of sense 2.

cuach f (genitive singular cuaiche, nominative plural cuacha)

1. ball, bundle (of clothes, etc.)
2. bowknot (of ribbons, etc.)
3. roll; tress, curl (of hair)
4. tuft, "latch" (of thatch)
5. hug, embrace
6. term of endearment

   Mo chuach thú! ― Love you!

• cuachmhargadh (“package deal”)

cuach (present analytic cuachann, future analytic cuachfaidh, verbal noun cuachadh, past participle cuachta) (transitive)

1. bundle; roll, wrap
2. hug; squeeze
3. flatter, praise

cuach m (genitive singular cuaigh, nominative plural cuaigh)

1. Alternative form of cuaifeach

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cuach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cuach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

• IPA^(key): /kʰuəx/

From Old Irish cuäch, cúach (“cup, goblet, bowl”), from Proto-Celtic *kaɸukos (“cup”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to seize, hold”).

cuach f (genitive singular cuaich, plural cuachan)

1. bowl

   Synonym: bobhla

2. goblet, quaich

From Old Irish cúach (“fastener, hook, buckle for cloak, hair, etc.; lock of hair, tress; hair”), from the root of sense 1.

cuach f (genitive singular cuaich, plural cuachan)

1. curl, ringlet

From Old Irish caí, cúach (“cuckoo”), caí (“act of weeping; wailing, lamentation”).

cuach f (genitive singular cuaich, plural cuachan)

1. cuckoo

   Synonym: cuthag

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuäch”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 cúach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 caí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cúach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language