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coirceog

coirceog

Irish

Noun

coirceog f ‎(genitive singular coircoige, nominative plural coirceoga)

(conical) hive
cone

Declension

Declension of coirceog

Second declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	coirceog	coirceoga
Vocative	a choirceog	a choirceoga
Genitive	coirceoige	coirceog
Dative	coirceog	coirceoga

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an choirceog	na coirceoga
Genitive	na coirceoige	na gcoirceog
Dative	leis an gcoirceog don choirceog	leis na coirceoga

Derived terms

Terms derived from coirceog

coirceogach ‎(“hive-shaped, conical”, adjective)
coirceogacht ‎(“conicity”)
coirceog bheach ‎(“beehive”)
coirceog chaolaigh ‎(“wicker beehive, skep”)

coirceog ghaoithe ‎(“wind-cone”)
coirceog lámhaigh ‎(“cone of fire”)
coirceog mhóna ‎(“heap of footed turf”)
coirceog pháipéir ‎(“paper cornet”)

coirceog reoiteoige ‎(“ice-cream cone”)
coirceog shiúcra ‎(“sugar-loaf”)
teascadh coirceoige ‎(“frustum of cone”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
coirceog	choirceog	gcoirceog
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"coirceog" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.