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Galician
Verb
caín
- first-person singular preterite indicative of caer
Old Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from a Brythonic language, whence the diphthong. Compare Welsh cain, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kanyos. Conflated with an earlier form cain with the same meaning, which is from Proto-Celtic *kanis, of which *kanyos was a thematicized form.
Pronunciation
Adjective
caín (superlative caínem)
- fine, good
- fair, beautiful
Inflection
| i-stem
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| Singular
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Masculine
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Feminine
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Neuter
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| Nominative
|
caín
|
caín
|
caín
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| Vocative
|
caín
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| Accusative
|
caín
|
caín
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| Genitive
|
caín
|
caíne
|
caín
|
| Dative
|
caín
|
caín
|
caín
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| Plural
|
Masculine
|
Feminine/neuter
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| Nominative
|
caíni
|
caíni
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| Vocative
|
caíni
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| Accusative
|
caíni
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| Genitive
|
caín*
caíne
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| Dative
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caínib
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| Notes
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*not when substantivized
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Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of caín
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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| caín
|
chaín
|
caín
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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