cúigear

Irish

cúigear

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Cardinal: cúig     Ordinal: cúigiú     Personal: cúigear

Etymology

From Old Irish cóicer, possibly from cóic (“five”) + fer (“man”), though that may be a folk etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːɟəɾˠ/

Noun

cúigear m (genitive singular cúigir, nominative plural cúigir) (triggers no mutation)

1. a group of five people

   Tá cúigear mac agam. ― I have five sons.

Usage notes

• Generally used with the genitive plural when referring to human beings and the preposition de when referring to other things.

Declension

Declension of cúigear (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cúigear cúigir vocative a chúigir a chúigeara genitive cúigir cúigear dative cúigear cúigir forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cúigear na cúigir genitive an chúigir na gcúigear dative leis an gcúigear don chúigear leis na cúigir

Related terms

• cúig (“five”) (non-personal)
• cúigréad (“quintet”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cúigear

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cúigear	chúigear	gcúigear

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cúigear”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cóicer”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language