colg
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish colg, from Proto-Celtic *kolgā (compare Middle Welsh coly, Cornish colgh), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat, break”)[1]
Noun
colg m (genitive singular coilg, nominative plural coilg)
Declension
Declension of colg
First declension
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- colgach
- colgaí
- colgán
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| colg | cholg | gcolg |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 212
Further reading
- “colg”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “colg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “colg”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 170
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “colg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 53
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 21
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