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coraíocht

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish córadacht, curadacht.[3]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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coraíocht f (genitive singular coraíochta)

  1. wrestling (sport)
  2. (act of) struggling, wrestling
  3. (obsolete) prowess

Declension

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Declension of coraíocht (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative coraíocht
vocative a choraíocht
genitive coraíochta
dative coraíocht

Synonyms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of coraíocht
radical lenition eclipsis
coraíocht choraíocht gcoraíocht

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. ^ Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caraíocht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  2. ^ coraíocht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coradacht, coraidecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 147

Further reading

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