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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish coingir, from the same root as cuing.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
cuingir f (genitive singular cuingreach, nominative plural cuingreacha)
- yoke, pair, team (two animals yoked or fettered together)
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| cuingir
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chuingir
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gcuingir
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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
- ^ “cuingir”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuingir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 306, page 108
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