colg

Irish

colg m (genitive singular coilg, nominative plural coilg)

beard, awn (long or stiff hairs on a plant)
(literary) sword
Synonym: claíomh
point (sharp tip of a weapon)
bristle
Synonyms: guaire, ribe
prickle (small, sharp pointed object, especially on an animal)
Synonyms: dealg, spíon
irritability (state or quality of being irritable)
Synonyms: cantal, meirg
rage, fury, anger
Synonyms: cuthach, fearg

Declension of colg (first declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an colg	na coilg
genitive	an choilg	na gcolg
dative	leis an gcolg don cholg	leis na coilg

Mutated forms of *colg*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
colg	cholg	gcolg

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

^ “colg”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “colg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 212
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 38, page 21
^ Mhac an Fhailigh, Éamonn (1968) The Irish of Erris, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 72, page 19
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 138, page 53