cóic

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷinkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koːɡʲ/

Numeral

Old Irish cardinal numbers

<  4	5	6  >
Cardinal : cóic     Ordinal : cóiced     Personal : cóicer

cóic

1. five

Descendants

• Irish: cúig
• Manx: queig
• Scottish Gaelic: còig

Mutation

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cóic”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language