coch
Scots edit
Etymology edit
Middle English; of imitative origin. See also German keuchen, Dutch kuchen.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
coch
Verb edit
coch (third-person singular simple present cochs, present participle cochin, simple past cocht, past participle cocht)
- to cough
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Welsh coch, from Proto-Brythonic *kox, borrowed from Latin coccum (“scarlet berry”), from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “berry”). Cognate with Cornish kogh (“scarlet”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
coch (feminine singular coch, plural cochion, equative coched, comparative cochach, superlative cochaf)
- red
- Synonym: rhudd
- red, ginger (of hair)
- bay (of a horse)
- Synonym: gwinau
- smutty, dirty
- 1973, Robat Gruffudd, Englynion Coch [Dirty Poems]:
Usage notes edit
- The plural can also be used as a noun.
Derived terms edit
- bochgoch (“rosy-cheeked; rosehip; red poppy”)
- brochgoch (“bay roan”)
- brongoch (“robin redbreast”)
- coch coronog (“dappled bay”)
- coch gloyw (“bright bay”)
- cochddu (“russet, dark bay”)
- cochen (“hare”)
- cochi (“to redden, to blush, to scorch”)
- cochni (“redness”)
- cochwelw (“light bay”)
- glaswelw (“red fleabitten grey, red speckled grey”)
- rhuddgoch (“crimson”)
- tingoch (“redstart”)
Mutation edit
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| coch | goch | nghoch | choch |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
See also edit
| gwyn | llwyd | du |
| coch; rhudd | oren, melyngoch; brown | melyn; melynwyn |
| melynwyrdd | gwyrdd | |
| gwyrddlas; glaswyrdd | asur, gwynlas | glas |
| fioled, rhuddlas; indigo | majenta; porffor | pinc, rhuddwyn |