coitchenn
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Celtic *kom-teges-nos.[1][2]
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcoitchenn
- common, mutual, shared
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14d12
- Is coitchen do cechtar de ainm alaili.
- Common to each of them is the name of the other.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14d12
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:coitchenn.
Inflection
edito/ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | coitchenn | coitchenn | coitchenn |
Vocative | coitchinn* coitchenn** | ||
Accusative | coitchenn | coitchinn | |
Genitive | coitchinn | coitchinne | coitchinn |
Dative | coitchiunn | coitchinn | coitchiunn |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | coitchinn | coitchenna | |
Vocative | coitchennu coitchenna† | ||
Accusative | coitchennu coitchenna† | ||
Genitive | coitchenn | ||
Dative | coitchennaib | ||
Notes | *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative |
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Middle Irish: coitchend, coitchenn
- Irish: coiteann
- Scottish Gaelic: coitcheann
- Manx: cadjin
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
coitchen | choitchen | coitchen pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1987) Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique
- ^ O’Rahilly, T. F. (1942) “Notes, Mainly Etymological”, in Ériu, volume 13, page 158
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coitchenn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language