coitchenn

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• coitchen, coitchent

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kom-teges-nos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkotʲxʲen͈]

Adjective

coitchenn

1. common, mutual, shared
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14^d12

     Is coitchen do cechtar de ainm alaili.

     Common to each of them is the name of the other.

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:coitchenn.

Inflection

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	coitchenn	coitchenn	coitchenn
Vocative	coitchinn* coitchenn**
Accusative	coitchenn	coitchinn
Genitive	coitchinn	coitchinne	coitchinn
Dative	coitchiunn	coitchinn	coitchiunn
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	coitchinn	coitchenna
Vocative	coitchennu coitchenna†
Accusative	coitchennu coitchenna†
Genitive	coitchenn
Dative	coitchennaib
Notes	*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

Derived terms

• coitchennas

Descendants

• Middle Irish: coitchend, coitchenn
  • Irish: coiteann
  • Scottish Gaelic: coitcheann
  • Manx: cadjin

Mutation

Mutation of coitchenn

radical	lenition	nasalization
coitchen	choitchen	coitchen pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coitchenn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language