coscair

Irish

Alternative forms

  • cascair (Ulster)
  • casgair, consgair, cosgair (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish con·scara (to destroy, kill).

Pronunciation

  • (Munster, Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈkɔsˠkəɾʲ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkasˠkəɾʲ/ (corresponding to the alternative form cascair)

Verb

coscair (present analytic coscraíonn, future analytic coscróidh, verbal noun coscairt, past participle coscartha)

  1. to hack up, mangle
  2. to thaw

Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
coscair choscair gcoscair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkoskɨrʲ]

Noun

coscair

  1. vocative/genitive singular of coscar

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
coscair choscair coscair
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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