cóiste

See also: coiste

Irish

cóiste

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkoːʃtʲə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːʃtʲə/

Noun

cóiste m (genitive singular cóiste, nominative plural cóistí)

1. coach (wheeled vehicle drawn by horse power); carriage
2. side-car, jaunting-car

Declension

Declension of cóiste

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative cóiste cóistí Vocative a chóiste a chóistí Genitive cóiste cóistí Dative cóiste cóistí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an cóiste na cóistí Genitive an chóiste na gcóistí Dative leis an gcóiste don chóiste leis na cóistí

Derived terms

• capall cóiste (“coach-horse”)
• cóiste bodhar (“headless coach, ghostly funeral hearse”)
• cóiste capaill (“horse-drawn coach”)
• cóiste ceithre chapall (“coach and four”)
• cóiste codlata (“sleeping-car”)
• cóiste dhá chapall (“coach and pair”)
• cóiste inscoite (“slip-carriage, slip-coach”)
• cóiste linbh, naíchóiste (“baby carriage, pram”)
• cóiste na marbh, marbhchóiste (“(funeral) hearse”)
• cóiste paisinéirí (“passenger coach”)
• giolla cóiste (“(carriage) footman”)
• mótarchóiste (“motor coach”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cóiste	chóiste	gcóiste
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cóiste”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN