coes
Portuguese
Verb
coes
- second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of coar
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of coar
Scots
Noun
coes
- plural of coe
Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *koɨs, from Proto-Celtic *koxsā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs-. Cognate with Old Irish cos (“leg”) and Latin coxa (“hip”).
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /koːɨ̯s/
- (South Wales) (standard) (colloquial) IPA(key): /kɔi̯s/
- (South Wales) (colloquial) IPA(key): /koːs/
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Noun
coes m or f (plural coesau)
- (anatomy) leg, shank
- leg (of table, chair, etc.), handle, haft or helve (of brush, axe, hammer, scythe, spade, broom, etc.); stem of pipe
- stalk, stem, pedicle
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| coes | goes | nghoes | choes |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- Angharad Fychan and Ann Parry Owen, editors (2014), “coes”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies