carthanas

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From carthain +‎ -as. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic carthannas.

Pronunciation

Noun

carthanas m (genitive singular carthanais)

  1. charity (organization)
  2. Synonym of carthanacht

Declension

Declension of carthanas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative carthanas
vocative a charthanais
genitive carthanais
dative carthanas
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an carthanas
genitive an charthanais
dative leis an gcarthanas
don charthanas

Mutation

Mutated forms of carthanas
radical lenition eclipsis
carthanas charthanas gcarthanas

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 98

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