coinne
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish coinne (“meeting, appointment, tryst; expectation”), a later form of coinnem (“visiting company, guest(s); band; (right to) free billetting”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]coinne f (genitive singular coinne, nominative plural coinní)
- tryst, appointment, date
- expectation (with le plus the person or thing expected)
- Synonym: súil
- Tá coinne agam leis.
- I am expecting him.
Declension
[edit]Declension of coinne
Derived terms
[edit]- do choinne, faoi choinne, i gcoinne (“(appointed, intended) for; in expectation of, to get”)
- i gcoinne (“against, opposed to; in every”)
- os coinne (“in front of, opposite”)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
coinne | choinne | gcoinne |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coinne”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coinne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coinnem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “coinne”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “coinne”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024