cointinn

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish contan,[2] from Proto-Brythonic *konten, a substantivization of Latin contendō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cointinn f (genitive singular cointinne)

  1. contention (argument, strife struggle)
  2. controversy (debate of opposing opinions)

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cointinn chointinn gcointinn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ cointinn”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “contan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 389, page 130

Further reading

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