cuingir

Irish

Alternative forms
  • coingeal, cuingreach, cuingealach, cuingeal[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish coingir, from the same root as cuing.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

cuingir f (genitive singular cuingreach, nominative plural cuingreacha)

  1. yoke, pair, team (two animals yoked or fettered together)

Declension
Declension of cuingir

Fifth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cuingir cuingreacha
Vocative a chuingir a chuingreacha
Genitive cuingreach cuingreacha
Dative cuingir
cuingrigh (archaic, dialectal)		 cuingreacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an chuingir na cuingreacha
Genitive na cuingreach na gcuingreacha
Dative leis an gcuingir
leis an gcuingrigh (archaic, dialectal)

don chuingir
don chuingrigh (archaic, dialectal)

 leis na cuingreacha

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

References
  1. “cuingir”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cuingir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 306, page 108

Further reading
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