coscar

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• coscur

Etymology

Traditionally explained as derived from con·scara (“to destroy, kill”). However, Gordon suspects that it is instead from com- +‎ scor, given the masculine o-stem inflection of both.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoskar]

Noun

coscar m (genitive coscair)

1. victory
   • 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. 95^a5

     Is ed as·bertis b⟨a⟩ a nert fadesin imme·ḟolnged choscur doib, níbu Día.

     That is, they used to say that it was their own strength that produced victory for them, not God

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	coscar, coscur	—	—
Vocative	coscair	—	—
Accusative	coscarN, coscur	—	—
Genitive	coscairL	—	—
Dative	coscurL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: coscar
• Scottish Gaelic: cosgar

Mutation

Mutation of coscar

radical	lenition	nasalization
coscar	choscar	coscar 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), “coscar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Verb

coscar

1. only used in se ... coscar, syntactic variant of coscarse