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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish cainnt (“speech, talk, conversation; act of speaking”).
Pronunciation
Noun
caint f (genitive singular cainte, nominative plural cainteanna)
- speech
- talking (acting as a verbal noun for a verb with no finite forms)
Tá sé ag caint liom.- He's talking to me
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| caint
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chaint
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gcaint
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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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References
- ^ “caint”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cainnt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 195, page 98
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 75, page 32
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cainnt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 106
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caint”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “caint” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “caint” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.