Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish cumscle, altered under the influence of gleo.[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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coinscleo m (genitive singular coinscleo)

  1. sortie, sally, attack
    Synonym: mionruathar

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
coinscleo choinscleo gcoinscleo
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ coinscleo”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuinn(d)scle”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 91

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