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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cerd,[1] from Proto-Celtic *kerdā, from the root *kerd- (“craft”). Doublet of ceard.
Pronunciation
Noun
ceird f (genitive singular ceirde, nominative plural ceirdeanna)
- trade, craft; occupation
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| ceird
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cheird
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gceird
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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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References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cerd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 82, page 34
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