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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish cuntas, borrowed from Anglo-Norman cuntes.
Pronunciation
Noun
cuntas m (genitive singular cuntais, nominative plural cuntais)
- verbal noun of cuntais
- amount
- account (bank; narration; etc.)
- reckoning
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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cuntas
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chuntas
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gcuntas
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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
- “cuntas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cunntas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 217
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuntas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “cuntas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuntas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Middle English
Noun
cuntas
- Alternative form of countesse