coch

Scots

Etymology

Middle English; of imitative origin. See also German keuchen, Dutch kuchen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koːx/

Noun

coch

1. cough

Verb

coch (third-person singular simple present cochs, present participle cochin, simple past cocht, past participle cocht)

1. to cough

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh coch, from Proto-Brythonic *kox, borrowed from Latin coccum (“scarlet berry”), from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “berry”). Cognate with Cornish kogh (“scarlet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koːχ/
• Rhymes: -oːχ

Adjective

coch (feminine singular coch, plural cochion, equative coched, comparative cochach, superlative cochaf)

1. red

   Synonym: rhudd

2. red, ginger (of hair)
3. bay (of a horse)

   Synonym: gwinau

4. smutty, dirty
   • 1973, Robat Gruffudd, Englynion Coch [Dirty Poems]:

Usage notes

• The plural can also be used as a noun.

Derived terms

• bochgoch (“rosy-cheeked; rosehip; red poppy”)
• brochgoch (“bay roan”)
• brongoch (“robin redbreast”)
• coch coronog (“dappled bay”)
• coch gloyw (“bright bay”)
• cochddu (“russet, dark bay”)
• cochen (“hare”)
• cochi (“to redden, to blush, to scorch”)
• cochni (“redness”)
• cochwelw (“light bay”)
• glaswelw (“red fleabitten grey, red speckled grey”)
• rhuddgoch (“crimson”)
• tingoch (“redstart”)

 

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
coch	goch	nghoch	choch
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See also

Colors in Welsh · lliwiau (layout · text)

gwyn	llwyd	du
coch; rhudd	oren, melyngoch; brown	melyn; melynwyn
melynwyrdd	gwyrdd
gwyrddlas; glaswyrdd	asur, gwynlas	glas
fioled, rhuddlas; indigo	majenta; porffor	pinc, rhuddwyn