cuain

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Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuənʲ/, /kuːnʲ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish cúan (“litter of pups or other small animals”).

Alternative forms

Noun

cuain f (genitive singular cuaine, nominative plural cuaineanna)

  1. a litter (of young)
  2. brood
  3. pack; band, company
Declension
Declension of cuain (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cuain cuaineanna
vocative a chuain a chuaineanna
genitive cuaine cuaineanna
dative cuain cuaineanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an chuain na cuaineanna
genitive na cuaine na gcuaineanna
dative leis an gcuain
don chuain 		leis na cuaineanna

Etymology 2

Noun

cuain m

  1. vocative/genitive singular of cuan (“haven; harbour; place of refuge; bow, curve; bowed, stooped, person”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuain
radical lenition eclipsis
cuain chuain gcuain

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish cúan.

Noun

cuain f (genitive singular cuaine, plural cuainean)

  1. litter of puppies or piglets

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

cuain m

  1. genitive singular of cuan

Mutation

Mutation of cuain
radical lenition
cuain chuain

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cuain”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cúan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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