cíoch
See also: cìoch
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish cích, from Old Irish cích, from Proto-Celtic *kīkos (compare Welsh cig (“meat”)).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cíoch f (genitive singular cíche, nominative plural cíocha)
- breast (female organ)
Declension edit
Declension of cíoch
Derived terms edit
- bainne cíche m (“breast milk”)
- cíochach, cíochmhar (“mammary”)
- cíochbheart m (“bra, brassiere”)
- cíoch-chruthach (“mammiform”)
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cíoch | chíoch | gcíoch |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cíoch”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 62