Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cuimleng,[2] verbal noun of an unattested verb (barely attested as Middle Irish con·ling[3]), from com- + lingid (to jump, leap).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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coimhlint f (genitive singular coimhlinte, nominative plural coimhlintí)

  1. competition, contest, battle (struggle)
  2. contention, conflict, rivalry
  3. race (contest)
    Synonym: rás
  4. (functioning as a verbal noun) (act of) contesting

Declension

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Declension of coimhlint (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative coimhlint coimhlintí
vocative a choimhlint a choimhlintí
genitive coimhlinte coimhlintí
dative coimhlint coimhlintí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an choimhlint na coimhlintí
genitive na coimhlinte na gcoimhlintí
dative leis an gcoimhlint
don choimhlint
leis na coimhlintí

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of coimhlint
radical lenition eclipsis
coimhlint choimhlint gcoimhlint

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ coimhlint”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuimleng”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “con·ling”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 257, page 92

Further reading

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