cnaipe

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cnap,[1] borrowed from Old Norse knappr and/or Old English cnæp.[2] Doublet of cnap.

Pronunciation

Noun

cnaipe m (genitive singular cnaipe, nominative plural cnaipí)

  1. button
  2. bead
  3. stud
  4. (computing) button or key on a keyboard

Declension

Declension of cnaipe (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cnaipe cnaipí
vocative a chnaipe a chnaipí
genitive cnaipe cnaipí
dative cnaipe cnaipí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cnaipe na cnaipí
genitive an chnaipe na gcnaipí
dative leis an gcnaipe
don chnaipe 		leis na cnaipí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cnaipe
radical lenition eclipsis
cnaipe chnaipe gcnaipe

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cnap”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Greene, D. (1976) “The influence of Scandinavian on Irish”, in Bo Almqvist and David Greene, editors, Proceedings of the Seventh Viking Congress, Dublin 15–21 August 1973, Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, pages 75–82
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 98, page 39
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 274, page 96

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