coíca

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷenkʷekonts, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷedḱomt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoːi̯ɡa/

Numeral

Old Irish cardinal numbers

<  40	50	60  >
Cardinal : coíca     Ordinal : cóecatmad

coíca

1. fifty
   • c. 775, “Táin Bó Fraích”, in Book of Leinster; republished as Ernst Windisch, editor, Táin bó Fraích, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1974, line 262:

     Do·tháet Findabair cucai, ⁊ coíca ingen impe.

     Findabair came to [Ailill], with fifty maidens around her.

Inflection

Masculine nt-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	coíca	coícaitL	coícait
Vocative	coíca	coícaitL	cóecta
Accusative	coícaitN	coícaitL	cóecta
Genitive	coícat	coícatL	coícatN
Dative	coícaitL	cóectaib	cóectaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: coícad
  • Irish: caoga
  • Manx: queigad
  • Scottish Gaelic: caogad

Mutation

Mutation of coíca

radical	lenition	nasalization
coíca	choíca	coíca pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coíca”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language