cancar

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Irish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin cancer. Compare Middle Irish cainncer (cancer).

Pronunciation

Noun

cancar m (genitive singular cancair)

  1. canker
  2. cantankerousness, peevishness, spleen
    Synonym: cantal
    Cad é atá ag cur cancair air?
    What's eating away at him?

Declension

Declension of cancar (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative cancar
vocative a chancair
genitive cancair
dative cancar
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an cancar
genitive an chancair
dative leis an gcancar
don chancar

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cancar
radical lenition eclipsis
cancar chancar gcancar

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