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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French cucuault; cognate with English cuckold.
Pronunciation
Noun
cucól m (genitive singular cucóil, nominative plural cucóil)
- cuckold
1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 196:« Ó, a dhuine uasail », arsan máta, « nár chuiris do long i ngeall liom go raibh do bhean dílis duit? Sin comhartha agat go bhfuileann tú id’ chucól agam ».- “Oh, sir,” said the mate, “didn’t you bet me your ship that your wife was faithful to you? Here is the proof that I have made you a cuckold.”
Declension
Mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| cucól
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chucól
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gcucól
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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
- ^ “cocól”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
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