chuig

See also: chúig

Irish

Alternative forms

• ag (colloquial; Galway)

Etymology

Back-formation from chuige, from Old Irish cuci, the third-person singular masculine of co (“toward”) (modern go).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xɪɟ/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /ɛɟ/ (being conflated with ag)

Preposition

chuig (plus dative, triggers no mutation)

1. to; towards
2. (with certain adjectives) at, for

Inflection

Inflection of chuig

	Person:		simple	emphatic
singular	first		chugam	chugamsa
	second		chugat	chugatsa
	third	m	chuige	chuigesean
		f	chuici	chuicise
plural	first		chugainn	chugainne
	second		chugaibh	chugaibhse
	third		chucu	chucusan

• Note: The personal forms of chuig also serve as the personal forms of chun. In Galway, many personal forms of ag take over the role of the personal forms of chuig/chun.

Derived terms

See Category:Irish phrasal verbs formed with "chuig"

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “chuig”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 32