cuinneog

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cuindeog.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

cuinneog f (genitive singular cuinneoige, nominative plural cuinneoga)

  1. churn (vessel for churning)

Declension

Declension of cuinneog (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cuinneog cuinneoga
vocative a chuinneog a chuinneoga
genitive cuinneoige cuinneog
dative cuinneog
cuinneoig (archaic, dialectal) 		cuinneoga
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an chuinneog na cuinneoga
genitive na cuinneoige na gcuinneog
dative leis an gcuinneog
leis an gcuinneoig (archaic, dialectal)
don chuinneog
don chuinneoig (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na cuinneoga

Descendants

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuinneog
radical lenition eclipsis
cuinneog chuinneog gcuinneog

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuinneóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 8

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