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Irish
Etymology
Originally “shaped object”, from ceap (“to shape, form”) + -aire.
Pronunciation
Noun
ceapaire m (genitive singular ceapaire, nominative plural ceapairí)
- a flat cake
- a piece of bread and butter
- a sandwich
Tá an fear ag ithe ceapaire.- The man is eating a sandwich.
Declension
Mutation
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| ceapaire
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cheapaire
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gceapaire
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- “ceapaire”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ceapaire”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 1
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ceapaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 76
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Originally “shaped object”, from ceap (“to shape, form”) + -aire.
Pronunciation
Noun
ceapaire m (genitive singular ceapaire, plural ceapairean)
- sandwich
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| ceapaire |
cheapaire
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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