cába

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See also: caba, Caba, CABA, çaba, Çaba, and Ćaba

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cába, from Latin cappa, possibly via Old Norse kápa.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

cába m (genitive singular cába, nominative plural cábaí)

  1. cape, cloak
  2. collar

Declension

Declension of cába (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cába cábaí
vocative a chába a chábaí
genitive cába cábaí
dative cába cábaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cába na cábaí
genitive an chába na gcábaí
dative leis an gcába
don chába 		leis na cábaí

Derived terms

  • cábach (“wearing a cape; collared”, adjective)
  • cáibín m (“caubeen, old hat”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cába
radical lenition eclipsis
cába chába gcába

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cába”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 371, page 126

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