"cú" meaning in Old Irish

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Noun

IPA: /kuː/
Etymology: From Primitive Irish ᚉᚒᚅᚐ (cuna, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *kū (compare Welsh ci), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ. Etymology templates: {{inh|sga|pgl|ᚉᚒᚅᚐ|pos=genitive}} Primitive Irish ᚉᚒᚅᚐ (cuna, genitive), {{inh|sga|cel-pro|*kū}} Proto-Celtic *kū, {{cog|cy|ci}} Welsh ci, {{inh|sga|ine-pro|*ḱwṓ}} Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ Head templates: {{head|sga|noun|||genitive|con|||||||nominative plural|coin||{{{pl2}}}||{{{pl3}}}|cat2=|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} cú m (genitive con, nominative plural coin), {{sga-noun|m|con|coin}} cú m (genitive con, nominative plural coin) Inflection templates: {{sga-decl-n-mf|coin|con|acc_pl=cona|g=m}}, {{sga-decl-noun|acc_du=coin+L|acc_du2=|acc_du3=|acc_du4=|acc_pl=cona+H|acc_pl2=|acc_pl3=|acc_sg=coin+N|acc_sg2=|acc_sg3=|acc_sg4=|acc_sg5=|class=n-m|dat_du=conaib|dat_du2=|dat_du3=|dat_pl=conaib|dat_pl2=|dat_pl3=|dat_sg=coin+L|dat_sg2=cú+L|dat_sg3=|dat_sg4=|dat_sg5=|dat_sg6=|gen_du=con+L|gen_du2=|gen_du3=|gen_pl=con+N|gen_pl2=|gen_pl3=|gen_sg=con|gen_sg2=|gen_sg3=|n=|nom_du=coin+L|nom_du2=|nom_du3=|nom_du4=|nom_pl=coin|nom_pl2=|nom_pl3=|nom_sg=cú|nom_sg2=|nom_sg3=|nom_sg4=|voc_du=coin+L|voc_du2=|voc_du3=|voc_du4=|voc_pl=cona+H|voc_pl2=|voc_pl3=|voc_sg=cú|voc_sg2=|voc_sg3=|voc_sg4=}} Forms: con [genitive], coin [nominative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], [nominative, singular], coin [dual, nominative], coin [nominative, plural], [singular, vocative], coin [dual, vocative], cona [plural, vocative], coin [accusative, singular], coin [accusative, dual], cona [accusative, plural], con [genitive, singular], con [dual, genitive], con [genitive, plural], coin [dative, singular], [dative, singular], conaib [dative, dual], conaib [dative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], [error-unrecognized-form], chú [error-unrecognized-form],
  1. dog, hound Tags: masculine Categories (lifeform): Dogs
    Sense id: en-cú-sga-noun-XQWEk7YJ Disambiguation of Dogs: 50 50 Categories (other): Old Irish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old Irish entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
  2. wolf Tags: masculine Categories (lifeform): Canids, Dogs Synonyms: macc tíre
    Sense id: en-cú-sga-noun-92thuWLb Disambiguation of Canids: 34 66 Disambiguation of Dogs: 50 50 Categories (other): Old Irish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old Irish entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: conamail, cúán, Cú Chulainn, doburchú

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "conamail"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "cúán"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Cú Chulainn"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "doburchú"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mga",
            "2": "cú"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle Irish: cú\nIrish: cú\nManx: coo\nScottish Gaelic: cù",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle Irish: cú\nIrish: cú\nManx: coo\nScottish Gaelic: cù"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "pgl",
        "3": "ᚉᚒᚅᚐ",
        "pos": "genitive"
      },
      "expansion": "Primitive Irish ᚉᚒᚅᚐ (cuna, genitive)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "*kū"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *kū",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "ci"
      },
      "expansion": "Welsh ci",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ḱwṓ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Primitive Irish ᚉᚒᚅᚐ (cuna, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *kū (compare Welsh ci), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "con",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coin",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sga-decl-n-mf",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cú",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cú",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cona",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cona",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "con",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "con",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "con",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cú",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conaib",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conaib",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cú",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chú",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cú",
      "source": "mutation"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "",
        "13": "nominative plural",
        "14": "coin",
        "15": "",
        "16": "{{{pl2}}}",
        "17": "",
        "18": "{{{pl3}}}",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "genitive",
        "6": "con",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "cú m (genitive con, nominative plural coin)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "con",
        "3": "coin"
      },
      "expansion": "cú m (genitive con, nominative plural coin)",
      "name": "sga-noun"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "coin",
        "2": "con",
        "acc_pl": "cona",
        "g": "m"
      },
      "name": "sga-decl-n-mf"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "acc_du": "coin+L",
        "acc_du2": "",
        "acc_du3": "",
        "acc_du4": "",
        "acc_pl": "cona+H",
        "acc_pl2": "",
        "acc_pl3": "",
        "acc_sg": "coin+N",
        "acc_sg2": "",
        "acc_sg3": "",
        "acc_sg4": "",
        "acc_sg5": "",
        "class": "n-m",
        "dat_du": "conaib",
        "dat_du2": "",
        "dat_du3": "",
        "dat_pl": "conaib",
        "dat_pl2": "",
        "dat_pl3": "",
        "dat_sg": "coin+L",
        "dat_sg2": "cú+L",
        "dat_sg3": "",
        "dat_sg4": "",
        "dat_sg5": "",
        "dat_sg6": "",
        "gen_du": "con+L",
        "gen_du2": "",
        "gen_du3": "",
        "gen_pl": "con+N",
        "gen_pl2": "",
        "gen_pl3": "",
        "gen_sg": "con",
        "gen_sg2": "",
        "gen_sg3": "",
        "n": "",
        "nom_du": "coin+L",
        "nom_du2": "",
        "nom_du3": "",
        "nom_du4": "",
        "nom_pl": "coin",
        "nom_pl2": "",
        "nom_pl3": "",
        "nom_sg": "cú",
        "nom_sg2": "",
        "nom_sg3": "",
        "nom_sg4": "",
        "voc_du": "coin+L",
        "voc_du2": "",
        "voc_du3": "",
        "voc_du4": "",
        "voc_pl": "cona+H",
        "voc_pl2": "",
        "voc_pl3": "",
        "voc_sg": "cú",
        "voc_sg2": "",
        "voc_sg3": "",
        "voc_sg4": ""
      },
      "name": "sga-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old Irish",
  "lang_code": "sga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "sga",
          "name": "Dogs",
          "orig": "sga:Dogs",
          "parents": [
            "Canids",
            "Carnivores",
            "Mammals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dog, hound"
      ],
      "id": "en-cú-sga-noun-XQWEk7YJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "dog",
          "dog"
        ],
        [
          "hound",
          "hound"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 66",
          "kind": "lifeform",
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          "orig": "sga:Canids",
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            "Carnivores",
            "Mammals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "sga",
          "name": "Dogs",
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          "parents": [
            "Canids",
            "Carnivores",
            "Mammals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "wolf"
      ],
      "id": "en-cú-sga-noun-92thuWLb",
      "links": [
        [
          "wolf",
          "wolf"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "macc tíre"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kuː/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cú"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Old Irish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old Irish lemmas",
    "Old Irish masculine nouns",
    "Old Irish masculine or feminine n-stem nouns",
    "Old Irish nouns",
    "Old Irish terms derived from Primitive Irish",
    "Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
    "Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Old Irish terms inherited from Primitive Irish",
    "Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
    "Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Pages with 7 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "sga:Canids",
    "sga:Dogs",
    "vi:Animal sounds",
    "vi:Owls"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "conamail"
    },
    {
      "word": "cúán"
    },
    {
      "word": "Cú Chulainn"
    },
    {
      "word": "doburchú"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mga",
            "2": "cú"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle Irish: cú\nIrish: cú\nManx: coo\nScottish Gaelic: cù",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle Irish: cú\nIrish: cú\nManx: coo\nScottish Gaelic: cù"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "pgl",
        "3": "ᚉᚒᚅᚐ",
        "pos": "genitive"
      },
      "expansion": "Primitive Irish ᚉᚒᚅᚐ (cuna, genitive)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "cel-pro",
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      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
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      },
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    },
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      "args": {
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        "3": "*ḱwṓ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Primitive Irish ᚉᚒᚅᚐ (cuna, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *kū (compare Welsh ci), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "con",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coin",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sga-decl-n-mf",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cú",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cú",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cona",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cona",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "con",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "con",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "con",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cú",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conaib",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conaib",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cú",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chú",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cú",
      "source": "mutation"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "",
        "13": "nominative plural",
        "14": "coin",
        "15": "",
        "16": "{{{pl2}}}",
        "17": "",
        "18": "{{{pl3}}}",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "genitive",
        "6": "con",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "cú m (genitive con, nominative plural coin)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
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        "3": "coin"
      },
      "expansion": "cú m (genitive con, nominative plural coin)",
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "coin",
        "2": "con",
        "acc_pl": "cona",
        "g": "m"
      },
      "name": "sga-decl-n-mf"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "acc_du2": "",
        "acc_du3": "",
        "acc_du4": "",
        "acc_pl": "cona+H",
        "acc_pl2": "",
        "acc_pl3": "",
        "acc_sg": "coin+N",
        "acc_sg2": "",
        "acc_sg3": "",
        "acc_sg4": "",
        "acc_sg5": "",
        "class": "n-m",
        "dat_du": "conaib",
        "dat_du2": "",
        "dat_du3": "",
        "dat_pl": "conaib",
        "dat_pl2": "",
        "dat_pl3": "",
        "dat_sg": "coin+L",
        "dat_sg2": "cú+L",
        "dat_sg3": "",
        "dat_sg4": "",
        "dat_sg5": "",
        "dat_sg6": "",
        "gen_du": "con+L",
        "gen_du2": "",
        "gen_du3": "",
        "gen_pl": "con+N",
        "gen_pl2": "",
        "gen_pl3": "",
        "gen_sg": "con",
        "gen_sg2": "",
        "gen_sg3": "",
        "n": "",
        "nom_du": "coin+L",
        "nom_du2": "",
        "nom_du3": "",
        "nom_du4": "",
        "nom_pl": "coin",
        "nom_pl2": "",
        "nom_pl3": "",
        "nom_sg": "cú",
        "nom_sg2": "",
        "nom_sg3": "",
        "nom_sg4": "",
        "voc_du": "coin+L",
        "voc_du2": "",
        "voc_du3": "",
        "voc_du4": "",
        "voc_pl": "cona+H",
        "voc_pl2": "",
        "voc_pl3": "",
        "voc_sg": "cú",
        "voc_sg2": "",
        "voc_sg3": "",
        "voc_sg4": ""
      },
      "name": "sga-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old Irish",
  "lang_code": "sga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "dog, hound"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dog",
          "dog"
        ],
        [
          "hound",
          "hound"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "wolf"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wolf",
          "wolf"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "macc tíre"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kuː/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cú"
}

Download raw JSONL data for cú meaning in Old Irish (5.1kB)

{
  "called_from": "inflection/865",
  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: cú/Old Irish 'radical' base_tags=set()",
  "path": [
    "cú"
  ],
  "section": "Old Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "cú",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'lenition'",
  "path": [
    "cú"
  ],
  "section": "Old Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "cú",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'nasalization'",
  "path": [
    "cú"
  ],
  "section": "Old Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "cú",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/1826",
  "msg": "inflection table: empty tags for cú",
  "path": [
    "cú"
  ],
  "section": "Old Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "cú",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Old Irish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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