cóic
Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *kʷenkʷe. Lengthening *e > *ē is expected, but the shift to /oː/ is not. From Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]| < 4 | 5 | 6 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : cóic Ordinal : cóiced Personal : cóicer | ||
cóic
Related terms
[edit]- coíca (“fifty”)
Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| cóic | chóic | cóic pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1987) “cóic”, in 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, page C-142f.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cóic”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language