caoch

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cáech (blind in one eye; a person blind in one eye), from Proto-Celtic *kaikos (compare Welsh coeg (empty, vain, one-eyed, blind)), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ikos (one-eyed) (compare Latin caecus (blind)).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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caoch m (genitive singular caoich, nominative plural caocha)

  1. blind, purblind person, creature

Declension

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Derived terms

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Adjective

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caoch (genitive singular masculine caoich, genitive singular feminine caoiche, plural caocha, comparative caoiche)

  1. blind, purblind (of creature)
  2. blind, empty; (of place) blind, closed up (of seed-vessel)
  3. (card games) nontrump

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Verb

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caoch (present analytic caochann, future analytic caochfaidh, verbal noun caochadh, past participle caochta)

  1. (transitive) blind; daze, dazzle
  2. (intransitive, of seed-vessel) become empty, wither
  3. (intransitive) close, become blocked
  4. (intransitive) wink [with ar ‘at’]; flicker

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
caoch chaoch gcaoch
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 101, page 56

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cáech (blind in one eye; a person blind in one eye), from Proto-Celtic *kaikos, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ikos (one-eyed).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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caoch (genitive singular feminine caoiche)

  1. empty
  2. blind
  3. hollow
  4. blasted
  5. one-eyed

Noun

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caoch m

  1. grampus
  2. mole
  3. blind beast

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
caoch chaoch
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “caoch”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language