cóic
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *kʷenkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.[1] Lengthening *e > *ē is expected, but the shift to /oː/ is not.
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]| < 4 | 5 | 6 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : cóic Ordinal : cóiced Personal : cóicer | ||
cóic
Quotations
[edit]- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 127d6
- in tan ro·mmemaid ré nAbracham forsna cóic ríga bertar Loth a Sodaim
- when the five kings who carried Lot from Sodom had been routed by Abraham
Related terms
[edit]- coíca (“fifty”)
Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| cóic | chóic | cóic pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1987) “cóic”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page C-142f.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cóic”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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