cuaifeach

Irish

Alternative forms

• cóifeach, cuach

Noun

cuaifeach m (genitive singular cuaifigh, nominative plural cuaifigh)

1. blast (of wind)..
2. whirlwind, eddying wind
3. flurry (sudden and brief blast or gust), squall (sudden storm)
4. swipe (strong blow given with a sweeping motion), roundhouse (punch or kick delivered with an exaggerated sweeping movement)

Derived terms

• cuaifeach uisce (“waterspout”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuaifeach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cuaifeach	chuaifeach	gcuaifeach

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

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “coifeaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 159
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuaifeach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 58