coigríoch
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish coicrích (“border, march, neighbouring or foreign territory”), from com- + crích (“boundary, limit, end”).
Pronunciation
- (Munster) IPA(key): /ˌkɔɟɪˈɾʲiːx/
Noun
coigríoch f (genitive singular coigríoche, nominative plural coigríocha)
- (literary) neighbouring place
- strange place, foreign country
Declension
Declension of coigríoch
Second declension
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Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
- ar an gcoigríoch (“abroad”)
- coigríochach (“strange, foreign”)
- coigríochta (“strange, foreign”)
Related terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| coigríoch | choigríoch | gcoigríoch |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- "coigríoch" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “coigríoch”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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