cóta

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cota"

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkoːt̪ˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːt̪ˠə/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish cóta, borrowed from Anglo-Norman cote, cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Old Frankish *kotta (“coat”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.

Noun

cóta m (genitive singular cóta, nominative plural cótaí)

1. a coat

Derived terms

• cóta báinín dheirg (“red flannel petticoat”)
• cóta báistí (“raincoat”)
• cóta beag (“petticoat”)
• cóta cabhlach (“skirt and bodice; frock”)
• cóta dearg (“red flannel petticoat”)
• cóta dúbailte (“double-breasted coat”)
• cóta eireabaill (“swallow-tail coat”)
• cóta fada (“long coat; (baby's) long robe”)
• cóta fearthainne (“raincoat”)
• cóta fionnaidh (“fur coat”)
• cóta fonsaí (“hooped petticoat, crinoline”)
• cóta giortach (“short coat”)
• cóta linbh (“child's frock”)
• cóta luascach (“swagger-coat”)
• cóta marcaigh (“riding-coat”)
• cóta mór (“greatcoat, overcoat”)
• seomra cótaí (“cloak-room”)

Etymology 2

Noun

cóta m (genitive singular cóta, nominative plural cótaí)

1. Alternative form of cuóta (“quota”)

Declension

Declension of cóta (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative cóta cótaí vocative a chóta a chótaí genitive cóta cótaí dative cóta cótaí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an cóta na cótaí genitive an chóta na gcótaí dative leis an gcóta don chóta leis na cótaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of cóta

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cóta	chóta	gcóta

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cóta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cóta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language