coscar

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• coscur

Etymology

Traditionally explained as derived from con·scara (“to destroy, kill”). However, Gordon suspects that it is instead from com- +‎ scor, given the masculine o-stem inflection of both.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoskar]

Noun

coscar m (genitive coscair)

1. victory
   • 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. 95^a5

     Is ed as·bertis b⟨a⟩ a nert fadesin imme·ḟolnged choscur doib, níbu Día.

     That is, they used to say that it was their own strength that produced victory for them, not God

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	coscar, coscur	—	—
Vocative	coscair	—	—
Accusative	coscarN, coscur	—	—
Genitive	coscairL	—	—
Dative	coscurL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: coscar
• Scottish Gaelic: cosgar

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
coscar	choscar	coscar pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “coscar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Verb

coscar

1. only used in se ... coscar, syntactic variant of coscarse