coicís

See also: coicis

Irish

Alternative forms

coicthigheas (superseded)
caoicidhis, caoicís, cóicidhis, coicíos, cóicíos, cóicís, coicthidhis, coicthighis, cóicthighis, coigdhís, cóigthidhis, coigthigheas, coigthighis (obsolete)[1]
coighcíos (Munster)

Etymology

From Old Irish cóicthiges, apparently a compound of cóic (“five”) and deich (“ten”); compare Welsh pythefnos (“fortnight”, literally “fifteen nights”) and Breton pemzektez (“fortnight”, literally “fifteen days”).[2]

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): (as if spelled caghcaíos) /kəiˈkiːsˠ/, (corresponding to the spelling coighcíos) /kəiˈciːsˠ/[3]
(Aran) IPA^(key): (as if spelled caghcaois) /ˈkɑikiːʃ/
(Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): (as if spelled caighcís) /ˈkəiciːʃ/[4]
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɨ̞kiːʃ/, (older) /ˈkɨ̞kɯːʃ/;[5] /ˈkʌkiːʃ/[6]

Noun

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

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.
  [Tá sé imithe le coicís.]
  He’s been gone for a fortnight.
  
  ȷ imə šē kaikīš ō hin.
  [D’imigh sé coicís ó shin.]
  He left a fortnight ago.
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 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

coicíseán
coicísiúil

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.

References

“coicís”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cóicthiges”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, page 189
O'Siadhail, Micheal (1988) Learning Irish, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 35
Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 28
Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 41