cogain

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish cocnaid, from Old Irish con·cná,[1] from Proto-Celtic *kom-knāyeti (to bite, chew), from Proto-Indo-European *kneh₂- (to bite, gnaw). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cagainn, Manx caign and Welsh cnoi.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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cogain (present analytic cognaíonn, future analytic cognóidh, verbal noun cogaint, past participle coganta)

  1. to chew

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cogain chogain gcogain
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “con·cnaí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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