coicís

See also: coicis

Irish

Alternative forms

• coicthigheas (superseded)
• caoicidhis, caoicís, cóicidhis, coicíos, cóicíos, cóicís, coicthidhis, coicthighis, cóicthighis, coigdhís, cóigthidhis, coigthigheas, coigthighis (obsolete)
• coighcíos (Munster)

Etymology

From Old Irish cóicthiges, apparently a compound of cóic (“five”) and deich (“ten”); compare Welsh pythefnos (“fortnight”, literally “fifteen nights”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (as if spelled caghcaíos) /kəiˈkiːsˠ/, (corresponding to the spelling coighcíos) /kəiˈciːsˠ/
• IPA^(key): (as if spelled caghcaois) /ˈkəikiːʃ/
• IPA^(key): (as if spelled caighcís) /ˈkəiciːʃ/
• IPA^(key): (as if spelled cocais) /ˈkʌkəʃ/

Noun

coicís f (genitive singular coicíse, nominative plural coicísí or coicíseacha)

1. fortnight
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 146:

     tā šē imī lē kaikīš.

     conventional orthography:

     Tá sé imithe le coicís.

     He’s been gone for a fortnight.

   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 146:

     ȷ imə šē kaikīš ō hin.

     conventional orthography:

     D’imigh sé coicís ó shin.

     He left a fortnight ago.

   • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 194:

     Do bhí coighcíos acu i dteannta a chéile go cómpórdach, ach aon tráthnóna amháin ghaibh an captaen amach, agus Máire le n-a chois.

     They had a fortnight together comfortably, but one evening the captain went out, and Mary along with him.

Declension

Declension of coicís

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative coicís coicísí Vocative a choicís a choicísí Genitive coicíse coicísí Dative coicís coicísí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an choicís na coicísí Genitive na coicíse na gcoicísí Dative leis an gcoicís don choicís leis na coicísí

Alternative plural: coicíseacha

Derived terms

• coicísiúil (“fortnightly”, adj)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
coicís	choicís	gcoicís
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cóicthiges”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “coicthigheas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 159
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coicís”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “coicís”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “coicís”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• “coicís”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy