coimhlint
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish cuimleng,[2] verbal noun of an unattested verb (barely attested as Middle Irish con·ling[3]), from com- + lingid (“to jump, leap”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]coimhlint f (genitive singular coimhlinte, nominative plural coimhlintí)
- competition, contest, battle (struggle)
- contention, conflict, rivalry
- race (contest)
- Synonym: rás
- (functioning as a verbal noun) (act of) contesting
Declension
[edit]Declension of coimhlint
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Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| coimhlint | choimhlint | gcoimhlint |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
[edit]- ^ “coimhlint”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuimleng”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “con·ling”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 92
Further reading
[edit]- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “coiṁliong”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 163
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coimhlint”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN