cuinneog

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cuindeog.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

cuinneog f (genitive singular cuinneoige, nominative plural cuinneoga)

  1. churn (vessel for churning)

Declension
Declension of cuinneog

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cuinneog cuinneoga
Vocative a chuinneog a chuinneoga
Genitive cuinneoige cuinneog
Dative cuinneog
cuinneoig (archaic, dialectal)		 cuinneoga

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an chuinneog na cuinneoga
Genitive na cuinneoige na gcuinneog
Dative leis an gcuinneog
leis an gcuinneoig (archaic, dialectal)

don chuinneog
don chuinneoig (archaic, dialectal)

 leis na cuinneoga

Descendants

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cuinneog chuinneog gcuinneog
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cuinneóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 8

Further reading
  • “cuinneog”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cuinneog”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 210
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuinneog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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