coíca

Old Irish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoːi̯ɡa/

Numeral

Old Irish cardinal numbers

<  40	50	60  >
Cardinal : coíca     Ordinal : cóecatmad

coíca

1. fifty
   • c. 775, “Táin Bó Fraích”, in Book of Leinster; republished as Ernst Windisch, editor, Táin bó Fraích, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1974, line 262:

     Do·tháet Findabair cucai, ⁊ coíca ingen impe.

     Findabair came to [Ailill], with fifty maidens around her.

Inflection

Masculine nt-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	coíca	coícaitL	coícait
Vocative	coíca	coícaitL	cóecta
Accusative	coícaitN	coícaitL	cóecta
Genitive	coícat	coícatL	coícatN
Dative	coícaitL	cóectaib	cóectaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: coícad
  • Irish: caoga
  • Manx: queigad
  • Scottish Gaelic: caogad

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
coíca	choíca	coíca pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “coíca”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language