cáca

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See also: caca, Caca, caça, caçà, căca, and ćaća

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cáca, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (“cake”), of unclear origin but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gog- (“ball-shaped object”).

Pronunciation

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(Ulster) IPA^(key):

Noun

cáca m (genitive singular cáca, nominative plural cácaí)

cake (small mass of baked dough; thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter)
Synonym: císte

Declension

Declension of cáca (fourth declension)

bare forms
case	singular	plural
nominative	cáca	cácaí
vocative	a cháca	a chácaí
genitive	cáca	cácaí
dative	cáca	cácaí

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an cáca	na cácaí
genitive	an cháca	na gcácaí
dative	leis an gcáca don cháca	leis na cácaí

Derived terms

bosca an cháca m (“cake tin”) (for storing cake)
cáca bacstaí m (“boxty”)
cáca baile m (“homemade cake”)
cáca bainise m (“bride-cake, wedding-cake”)
cáca beag m (“pastry”)
cáca biotáille m (“tipsy-cake”)
cáca boise m (“(small) cake”)
cáca caife m (“coffee cake”)
cáca cainéil m (“cinnamon cake”)
cáca cairéid m (“carrot cake”)
cáca cearbhais m (“seed-cake”)
cáca cróch m (“saffron cake”)
cáca cuiríní m (“currant cake”)
cáca éisc m (“fishcake”)
cáca gridille m (“griddle-cake”)
cáca lá breithe m (“birthday cake”)
cáca meala m (“honey-cake”)
cáca milis m (“cake (sweet dessert)”)
cáca minchoirce m (“(oat-)cake”)
cáca ola m (“oil-cake”)
cáca portáin m (“crab cake”)
cáca prátaí m (“potato cake”)
cáca reoánta m (“fancy cake”)
cáca rísíní m (“plum-cake”)
cáca seacláide m (“chocolate cake”)
cáca sinséir m (“ginger cake”)
cáca síol cotúin m (“cotton-cake”)
cáca síol rois m (“linseed-cake”)
cáca spúinse m (“sponge cake”)
cáca srathach m (“layer cake”)
cáca tae m (“tea-cake”)
cáca torthaí m (“fruit cake”)
cáca úll m (“apple-tart”)
meascán cáca m (“cake mixture”)
stán cáca m (“cake tin”) (baking tin)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *cáca*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
cáca	cháca	gcáca

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

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cáca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáca”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cáca”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
“cáca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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