cnoc

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cnocc, from Proto-Celtic *knokkos (“hill”).

Pronunciation
  • (Munster) IPA(key): /kn̪ˠɔk/, (West Cork) IPA(key): /kn̪ˠʊk/
  • (Aran) IPA(key): /knˠɔk/
  • (Galway, Mayo, Ulster) IPA(key): /kɾˠʊk/

Noun

cnoc m (genitive singular cnoic, nominative plural cnoic)

  1. hill, mount
    Proverb:
    Is glas na cnoic i bhfad uainn. ― Distant prospects can be deceptively alluring, literally “Distant hills look green.”

Declension
Declension of cnoc

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cnoc cnoic
Vocative a chnoic a chnoca
Genitive cnoic cnoc
Dative cnoc cnoic

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cnoc na cnoic
Genitive an chnoic na gcnoc
Dative leis an gcnoc

don chnoc

 leis na cnoic

Derived terms
  • cnocach (“hilly”, adjective)
  • cnocadóir m, cnocaire m (“hillman, hillclimber”)
  • cnoc ailse (“malignant tumour”)
  • Cnoc Airéis (“Areopagus”)
  • cnocán m (“hillock; heap”)
  • cnoc brád (“swollen gland”)
  • cnoc farraige (“huge wave”)
  • cnoc oighir (“iceberg”)
  • dronn cnoic m (“hogback”)
  • milleadh cnoic m (“louping ill”)
  • tae an chnoic m (“(drink prepared from) heart’s-ease”)
  • urchar cnoic m (“‘fairy dart’, louping-ill”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cnoc chnoc gcnoc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • "cnoc" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “cnocc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cnocc, from Proto-Celtic *knokkos (“hill”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɾɔ̃ʰk/

Noun

cnoc m (genitive singular cnuic, plural cnuic)

  1. hill, hillock, knoll, eminence
    Cha rachainn gu cùl cnuic leis aig meadhon latha. ― I would not go with him behind a hill at mid-day.
    An latha bhatar a' roinn na céille, cha robh mi fhéin air a' chnoc. ― The day that sense was apportioned, I myself was not on the hillock.
  2. heel kibe
  3. council, court
  4. wisdom

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
cnocchnoc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “cnocc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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