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coráiste

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English corage, from Old French corage, from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor (heart).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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coráiste m (genitive singular coráiste)

  1. (dated) courage
  2. gall (impudence, brazenness)

Declension

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Declension of coráiste (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative coráiste
vocative a choráiste
genitive coráiste
dative coráiste
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an coráiste
genitive an choráiste
dative leis an gcoráiste
don choráiste

Synonyms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of coráiste
radical lenition eclipsis
coráiste choráiste gcoráiste

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

References

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  1. ^ coráiste”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 230, page 116

Further reading

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