cantain

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cantain, a late verbal noun of canaid (“sings, recites”).

Noun

cantain f (genitive singular cantana)

  1. (nonstandard) verbal noun of can (“chant, sing”)
  2. chanting, singing
    1. birdsong

Declension

Declension of cantain (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative cantain
vocative a chantain
genitive cantana
dative cantain
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an chantain
genitive na cantana
dative leis an gcantain
don chantain

Mutation

Mutated forms of cantain
radical lenition eclipsis
cantain chantain gcantain

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

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