cuingir

Irish

Alternative forms

• coingeal, cuingreach, cuingealach, cuingeal

Etymology

From Middle Irish coingir, from the same root as cuing.

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪɲəɾʲ/

Noun

cuingir f (genitive singular cuingreach, nominative plural cuingreacha)

1. yoke, pair, team (two animals yoked or fettered together)

Declension

Declension of cuingir

Fifth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative cuingir cuingreacha Vocative a chuingir a chuingreacha Genitive cuingreach cuingreacha Dative cuingir cuingrigh (archaic, dialectal) cuingreacha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an chuingir na cuingreacha Genitive na cuingreach na gcuingreacha Dative leis an gcuingir leis an gcuingrigh (archaic, dialectal) don chuingir don chuingrigh (archaic, dialectal) leis na cuingreacha

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cuingir	chuingir	gcuingir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cuingir”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 210
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuingir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN