coinleach

Irish

Alternative forms

  • caoinleach, coinlioch, coinnleach, condlach, conlach, connlach (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From connall (“stalk, stubble”) +‎ -ach.[2]

Pronunciation

  • (Munster, Galway) IPA(key): /ˈkiːnʲlʲəx/[3][4] (corresponding to caoinleach)
  • (Mayo) IPA(key): /ˈkin̠ʲl̠ʲəx/[5]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkɞn̪ˠl̪ˠa(x)/[6] (corresponding to the form conlach)

Noun

coinleach m (genitive singular coinligh)

  1. stubble (short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested)

Declension

Declension of coinleach (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative coinleach
vocative a choinligh
genitive coinligh
dative coinleach
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an coinleach
genitive an choinligh
dative leis an gcoinleach
don choinleach

Derived terms

  • coinleach féasoige (“stubble (on a person’s face, etc.)”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of coinleach
radical lenition eclipsis
coinleach choinleach gcoinleach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “coinleach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “connlach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Ó Cuív, Brian (1968), The Irish of West Muskerry, Co. Cork: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 154, page 46; reprinted 1988
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 169
  5. ^ de Búrca, Seán (1958), The Irish of Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 133, page 27
  6. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 24

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.