coigríoch
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish coicrích (“border, march, neighbouring or foreign territory”), from com- + crích (“boundary, limit, end”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
coigríoch f (genitive singular coigríoche, nominative plural coigríocha)
- (literary) neighbouring place
- strange place, foreign country
Declension edit
Declension of coigríoch
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms edit
- ar an gcoigríoch (“abroad”)
- coigríochach (“strange, foreign”)
- coigríochta (“strange, foreign”)
Related terms edit
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
coigríoch | choigríoch | gcoigríoch |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coigríoch”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coigríoch”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language