ciabhóg

Irish

Etymology

From ciabh +‎ -óg. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic ciabhag.

Noun

ciabhóg f (genitive singular ciabhóige, nominative plural ciabhóga)

1. lock, tress

Declension

Declension of ciabhóige (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ciabhóige ciabhóigea vocative a chiabhóige a chiabhóigea genitive ciabhóga ciabhóige dative ciabhóige ciabhóigea forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an chiabhóige na ciabhóigea genitive na ciabhóga na gciabhóige dative leis an gciabhóige don chiabhóige leis na ciabhóigea

Mutation

Mutated forms of ciabhóg

radical	lenition	eclipsis
ciabhóg	chiabhóg	gciabhóg

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) “ciabhóg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN