canaid

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Irish

Pronunciation

Verb

canaid

  1. (Munster) third-person plural present indicative of can

Usage notes

The equivalent in the standard language is the analytic construction canann siad.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
canaid chanaid gcanaid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kaneti (compare Welsh canu), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n-.

Pronunciation

Verb

canaid (conjunct ·cain, verbal noun cétal)

  1. to sing
    • Old Irish treatise on the Psalter, published in Hibernica Minora, (1894, Oxford: Clarendon Press), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 6, line 186
      Ceist: in tre metur fa tre prois ro·céta int psailm?
      A question: were the psalms sung in meter or in prose?

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: can
  • Scottish Gaelic: can

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
canaid chanaid canaid
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References