Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Irish cocnaid, from Old Irish con·cná, from Proto-Celtic *knāyeti (to bite, chew), from Proto-Indo-European *kneh₂- (to bite, gnaw). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cagainn and Welsh cnoi.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

cogain (present analytic cognaíonn, future analytic cognóidh, verbal noun cogaint, past participle coganta)

  1. to chew

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cogain chogain gcogain
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit