coitcheann

Irish

Adjective

coitcheann (genitive singular masculine coitchinn, genitive singular feminine coitchinne, plural coitcheanna, comparative coitchinne)

  1. Obsolete spelling of coiteann (“common, general”)

Declension
Declension of coitcheann
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative coitcheann choitcheann coitcheanna;
choitcheanna²
Vocative choitchinn coitcheanna
Genitive coitchinne coitcheanna coitcheann
Dative coitcheann;
choitcheann¹		 choitcheann;
choitchinn (archaic)		 coitcheanna;
choitcheanna²
Comparative níos coitchinne
Superlative is coitchinne

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Noun

coitcheann m (genitive singular coitchinn)

  1. Obsolete spelling of coiteann (“commonalty; community; common”)

Declension
Declension of coitcheann

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative coitcheann
Vocative a choitchinn
Genitive coitchinn
Dative coitcheann

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an coitcheann
Genitive an choitchinn
Dative leis an gcoitcheann

don choitcheann

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
coitcheann choitcheann gcoitcheann
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish coitchenn (whence also Manx cadjin and Irish coiteann), from Old Irish coitchen, from Proto-Celtic *kom-teges-nos.[1][2]

Adjective

coitcheann

  1. common, shared, public
  2. general

Derived terms

Noun

coitcheann m (genitive singular coitchinn, plural coitcheannan)

  1. common; common grazings shared between crofters (of land)

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

References
  1. Joseph Vendryes, Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien
  2. T. F. O’Rahilly, Ériu 13:158
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