cuaiche

Irish

Noun

cuaiche f sg

1. genitive singular of cuach (“cuckoo; strain of music; snatch of song; alto, falsetto (voice); whoop; whinny; whine; sigh, sob”)

Noun

cuaiche f sg

1. genitive singular of cuach (“ball, bundle; bowknot; roll; tress, curl; tuft, latch; hug, embrace”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuaiche

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cuaiche	chuaiche	gcuaiche

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuaiche”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cuaiche”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cuaiche”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024