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coim

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See also: coím

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish comm.[2] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic com.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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coim f (genitive singular coime, nominative plural coimeanna)

  1. waist
  2. covering

Declension

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Declension of coim (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative coim coimeanna
vocative a choim a choimeanna
genitive coime coimeanna
dative coim coimeanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an choim na coimeanna
genitive na coime na gcoimeanna
dative leis an gcoim
don choim
leis na coimeanna
  • Alternative plural form: coime

Derived terms

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Noun

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coim

  1. vocative/genitive singular of com

References

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  1. ^ coim”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 coim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39

Further reading

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