cáfraith

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From cáith (“chaff”) +‎ bruith (“boiling”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cáfraith f (genitive singular cáfraithe)

  1. sowens (food made from oat husks), flummery

Declension

Declension of cáfraith (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative cáfraith
vocative a cháfraith
genitive cáfraithe
dative cáfraith
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an cháfraith
genitive na cáfraithe
dative leis an gcáfraith
don cháfraith

Mutation

Mutated forms of cáfraith
radical lenition eclipsis
cáfraith cháfraith gcáfraith

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

References

  1. ^ “cáfraith”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 311, page 109

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