cuiseog

Irish

Alternative forms

  • coiseog
  • cuiseóg (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From cuise (“meadow grass”) +‎ -óg.

Pronunciation

Noun

cuiseog f (genitive singular cuiseoige, nominative plural cuiseoga)

  1. stalk (stem or main axis of a plant)

Declension

Declension of cuiseog (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cuiseog cuiseoga
vocative a chuiseog a chuiseoga
genitive cuiseoige cuiseog
dative cuiseog
cuiseoig (archaic, dialectal) 		cuiseoga
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an chuiseog na cuiseoga
genitive na cuiseoige na gcuiseog
dative leis an gcuiseog
leis an gcuiseoig (archaic, dialectal)
don chuiseog
don chuiseoig (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na cuiseoga

Derived terms

  • cuiseogach
  • cuiseog fhionn

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuiseog
radical lenition eclipsis
cuiseog chuiseog gcuiseog

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “cuiseog”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 125, page 48

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “coiseog”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 230; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cuiseog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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