cuiseog

Irish

Alternative forms

• cuiseóg (obsolete)

Etymology

From cuise (“meadow grass”) +‎ -óg.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kəˈʃoːɡ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪʃoːɡ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪʃɔɡ/

Noun

cuiseog f (genitive singular cuiseoige, nominative plural cuiseoga)

1. stalk (stem or main axis of a plant)

Declension

Declension of cuiseog (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cuiseog cuiseoga vocative a chuiseog a chuiseoga genitive cuiseoige cuiseog dative cuiseog cuiseoig (archaic, dialectal) cuiseoga forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an chuiseog na cuiseoga genitive na cuiseoige na gcuiseog dative leis an gcuiseog leis an gcuiseoig (archaic, dialectal) don chuiseog don chuiseoig (archaic, dialectal) leis na cuiseoga

Derived terms

• cuiseogach
• cuiseog fhionn

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuiseog

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cuiseog	chuiseog	gcuiseog

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

Further reading

• “cuiseog”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cuiseog”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 48