cointinn
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish contan,[2] from Proto-Brythonic *konten, a substantivization of Latin contendō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cointinn f (genitive singular cointinne)
- contention (argument, strife struggle)
- controversy (debate of opposing opinions)
Declension
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Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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| cointinn | chointinn | gcointinn |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ “cointinn”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “contan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 389, page 130
Further reading
[edit]- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cointinn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 166
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cointinn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *tend- (stretch)
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Brythonic
- Irish terms derived from Latin
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- Irish second-declension nouns