Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Irish coingir, from the same root as cuing.[2]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cuingir f (genitive singular cuingreach, nominative plural cuingreacha)

  1. yoke, pair, team (two animals yoked or fettered together)

Declension edit

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cuingir chuingir gcuingir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ cuingir”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuingir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 306, page 108

Further reading edit