cabaireacht

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From cabaire +‎ -acht.

Pronunciation

Noun

cabaireacht f (genitive singular cabaireachta)

  1. (act of) babbling, prattling, gabbing, jawing
  2. loquacity
  3. prattle, palaver (unnecessary talk, chatter)

Declension

Declension of cabaireacht (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative cabaireacht
vocative a chabaireacht
genitive cabaireachta
dative cabaireacht
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an chabaireacht
genitive na cabaireachta
dative leis an gcabaireacht
don chabaireacht

Usage notes

Sometimes functions as a verbal noun without finite verb forms.

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cabaireacht
radical lenition eclipsis
cabaireacht chabaireacht gcabaireacht

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

References

  1. ^ “cabaireacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 146

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