cíoch
Appearance
See also: cìoch
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish cích, from Old Irish cích, from Proto-Celtic *kīkos (compare Welsh cig (“meat”)).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cíoch f (genitive singular cíche, nominative plural cíocha)
- breast (female organ)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- bainne cíche m (“breast milk”)
- cíoch-chruthach> (“mammiform”)
- cíochach> (“mammary”)
- cíochbheart m (“bra, brassiere”)
- cíochmhar> (“mammary”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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cíoch | chíoch | gcíoch |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 164, page 62
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cíoch”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
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- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- Irish second-declension nouns
- ga:Female
- ga:Organs