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Irish
Noun
cainnt f (genitive singular cainnte, nominative plural cainnteanna)
- Superseded spelling of caint.
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| cainnt
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chainnt
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gcainnt
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Old Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
cainnt f
- verbal noun of canaid
- act of speaking
- speech, talk, conversation
Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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| cainnt
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chainnt
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cainnt
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish cainnt (“act of speaking; speech, talk, conversation”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cainnt f (genitive singular cainnte, plural cainntean)
- speech, language
- discourse, conversation
- language, tongue
Declension
Declension of cainnt (class IIb feminine noun)
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “cainnt”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cainnt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language