cóiste

See also: coiste

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi.

Pronunciation

(Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkoːʃtʲə/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːʃtʲə/

Noun

cóiste m (genitive singular cóiste, nominative plural cóistí)

coach (wheeled vehicle drawn by horse power); carriage
side-car, jaunting-car

Declension

Declension of cóiste

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cóiste	cóistí
Vocative	a chóiste	a chóistí
Genitive	cóiste	cóistí
Dative	cóiste	cóistí

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an cóiste	na cóistí
Genitive	an chóiste	na gcóistí
Dative	leis an gcóiste don chóiste	leis na cóistí

Derived terms

capall cóiste (“coach-horse”)
cóiste bodhar (“headless coach, ghostly funeral hearse”)
cóiste capaill (“horse-drawn coach”)
cóiste ceithre chapall (“coach and four”)
cóiste codlata (“sleeping-car”)
cóiste dhá chapall (“coach and pair”)
cóiste inscoite (“slip-carriage, slip-coach”)
cóiste linbh, naíchóiste (“baby carriage, pram”)
cóiste na marbh, marbhchóiste (“(funeral) hearse”)
cóiste paisinéirí (“passenger coach”)
giolla cóiste (“(carriage) footman”)
mótarchóiste (“motor coach”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cóiste	chóiste	gcóiste
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cóiste”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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