caoga

Irish

Irish numbers ^(edit)

[a], [b], [c] ←  40	50	60  → [a], [b], [c]
	5
Cardinal: caoga, leathchéad     Ordinal: caogadú     Attributive: caoga, leathchéad

Etymology

From Old Irish coíca.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈkeːɡə/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkiːɡə/

Numeral

caoga

1. fifty

Usage notes

• Always used with nouns in the singular; triggers no mutation:

• caoga carr ― fifty cars
• caoga bean ― fifty women
• caoga bliain ― fifty years

Derived terms

• caogadú (“fiftieth”, adjective)
• caogadú m (“fiftieth part”)

Noun

caoga m (genitive singular caogad, nominative plural caogaidí)

1. fifty, a group of fifty

Declension

Declension of caoga (fifth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative caoga caogaidí vocative a chaoga a chaogaidí genitive caogad caogaidí dative caoga caogaid (in certain phrases) caogaidí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an caoga na caogaidí genitive an chaogad na gcaogaidí dative leis an gcaoga don chaoga leis na caogaidí

• Plural used after numerals: caogaid

Synonyms

• leathchéad

Mutation

Mutated forms of caoga

radical	lenition	eclipsis
caoga	chaoga	gcaoga

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

References

• “caoga”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025, retrieved 21 May 2024
• “fifty”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025, retrieved 21 May 2024
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fifty”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, retrieved 21 May 2024
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “caogad”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 114
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caoga”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN, retrieved 21 May 2024
• Ó Dónaill, Niall, Ua Maoileoin, Pádraig (1991) “caoga”, in An Foclóir Beag (in Irish), Dublin: An Gúm, retrieved 21 May 2024
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coíca”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language, retrieved 21 May 2024