cógas
See also: cogas
Irish
Alternative forms
- cógais f, comhgais f, cóngais f
- comhgas, cóngas
- cómhgas, comhgus, cómhgus, cómhgus (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle Irish comcaisiu (“examination”), verbal noun of con·aicci (“to examine”).
Noun
cógas m (genitive singular cógais, nominative plural cógais)
- medication
- medicine
- Synonyms: cógas leighis, leigheas
- pharmaceutical
- Synonyms: cógaisíocht, earra cógaisíochta
Declension
Declension of cógas
First declension
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- cófra cógas (“medicine cabinet”)
- cógaiseoir (“pharmacist”)
- cógaisíocht (“pharmacy; pharmaceutics”)
- cógas casachta (“cough mixture”)
- cógas frithdhúlagair (“antidepressant”)
- cógas frithmhaláireach (“antimalarial”)
- cógas paitinne (“patent medicine”)
- cógaseolaí (“pharmacologist”)
- cógaseolaíoch (“pharmaceutical”, adjective)
- cógaseolaíocht (“pharmacology”)
- cógaslann (“pharmacy”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| cógas | chógas | gcógas |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 65
Further reading
- “cógas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “comcaisiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cóngas, cógas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cógas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “cógas” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “cógas” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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