coch

Scots

Etymology

Middle English; of imitative origin. See also German keuchen, Dutch kuchen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koːx/

Noun

coch

  1. cough

Verb

coch (third-person singular simple present cochs, present participle cochin, simple past cocht, past participle cocht)

  1. to cough

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh coch, from Proto-Brythonic *kox, borrowed from Latin coccum (“scarlet berry”), from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “berry”). Cognate with Cornish kogh (“scarlet”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koːχ/
  • Rhymes: -oːχ

Adjective

coch (feminine singular coch, plural cochion, equative coched, comparative cochach, superlative cochaf)

  1. red
    Synonym: rhudd
  2. red, ginger (of hair)
  3. bay (of a horse)
    Synonym: gwinau
  4. smutty, dirty
    • 1973, Robat Gruffudd, Englynion Coch [Dirty Poems]:

Usage notes

  • The plural can also be used as a noun.

Derived terms

  • bochgoch (“rosy-cheeked; rosehip; red poppy”)
  • brochgoch (“bay roan”)
  • brongoch (“robin redbreast”)
  • coch coronog (“dappled bay”)
  • coch gloyw (“bright bay”)
  • cochddu (“russet, dark bay”)
  • cochen (“hare”)
  • cochi (“to redden, to blush, to scorch”)
  • cochni (“redness”)
  • cochwelw (“light bay”)
  • glaswelw (“red fleabitten grey, red speckled grey”)
  • rhuddgoch (“crimson”)
  • tingoch (“redstart”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
coch goch nghoch choch
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See also

Colors in Welsh · lliwiau (layout · text)
     gwyn      llwyd      du
             coch; rhudd              oren, melyngoch; brown              melyn; melynwyn
             melynwyrdd              gwyrdd             
             gwyrddlas; glaswyrdd              asur, gwynlas              glas
             fioled, rhuddlas; indigo              majenta; porffor              pinc, rhuddwyn
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