cúigiú
Irish
Alternative forms
- cúigeadh (superseded)
- cúicceadh, cúigmhadh, cúigmheadh (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle Irish cóiced, from Old Irish cóiced, from Proto-Celtic *kʷenkʷetos; synchronically analyzable as cúig + -iú. In northern dialects (Ulster and Mayo) the historical form cúigeadh and the modern form cúigiú are homophonous, so the modern form can be considered simply a respelling to assimilate the word to the ordinal suffix -ú. In the dialects of Galway and Munster the modern form may be considered to have replaced the historical form, which was pronounced /ˈkuːɟə/.
Pronunciation
- (Munster) IPA(key): /kuːˈɟuː/
- (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈkuːɟuː/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkuːɟu/
Adjective
| < 4th | 5th | 6th > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : cúig Ordinal : cúigiú | ||
cúigiú (not comparable)
- fifth
Declension
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | cúigiú | chúigiú | cúigiú; chúigiú² | |
| Vocative | chúigiú | cúigiú | ||
| Genitive | cúigiú | cúigiú | cúigiú | |
| Dative | cúigiú; chúigiú¹ | chúigiú | cúigiú; chúigiú² | |
| Comparative | (not comparable) | |||
| Superlative | (not comparable) | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Noun
cúigiú m (genitive singular cúigiú, nominative plural cúigithe)
- a fifth
Declension
Fourth declension
Bare forms
| Forms with the definite article
|
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| cúigiú | chúigiú | gcúigiú |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- “cúigiú” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cóiced”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “cúigeaḋ” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 208.
- "cúigiú" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.