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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish cosmart.
Pronunciation
Noun
caismirt f (genitive singular caismirte, nominative plural caismirtí)
- (liteary) signal (usually by sound, especially of battle), din, alarm
- conflict, argument, contention
- discussion
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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| caismirt
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chaismirt
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gcaismirt
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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
- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “caismirt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 108
- ^ Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caismirt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 97
- ^ “caismirt”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy