cogaint

Irish

Alternative forms

• cagaint, cangailt, cognadh

Etymology

From cogain +‎ -t. Replaces Classical Gaelic cognamh from Old Irish cocnam, verbal noun of con·cná.

Noun

cogaint f (genitive singular coganta)

1. verbal noun of cogain
2. act of chewing, mastication

Declension

Declension of cogaint (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative cogaint vocative a chogaint genitive coganta dative cogaint forms with the definite article case singular nominative an chogaint genitive na coganta dative leis an gcogaint don chogaint

Derived terms

• athchogaint
• guma coganta

Mutation

Mutated forms of cogaint

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cogaint	chogaint	gcogaint

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

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cogaint”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 158
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cogaint”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN