cúigear
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Irish[edit]
← 4 | 5 | 6 → |
---|---|---|
Cardinal: cúig Ordinal: cúigiú Personal: cúigear |
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish cóicer, possibly from cóic (“five”) + fer (“man”), though that may be a folk etymology.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cúigear m (genitive singular cúigir, nominative plural cúigir) (triggers no mutation)
- a group of five people
- Tá cúigear mac agam. ― I have five sons.
Usage notes[edit]
- Generally used with the genitive plural when referring to human beings and the preposition de when referring to other things.
Declension[edit]
Declension of cúigear
Bare forms:
|
Forms with the definite article:
|
Related terms[edit]
Mutation[edit]
Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cúigear | chúigear | gcúigear |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cúigear”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cóicer”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language