cuntas

Irish

Alternative forms

• cunntas, cúntas, cuntus, cúntus, cunntus

Etymology

From Middle Irish cuntas, borrowed from Anglo-Norman cuntes.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːn̪ˠt̪ˠəsˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkʊn̪ˠt̪ˠəsˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌn̪ˠt̪ˠəsˠ/

Noun

cuntas m (genitive singular cuntais, nominative plural cuntais)

1. verbal noun of cuntais
2. amount
3. account (bank; narration; etc.)
4. reckoning

Declension

Declension of cuntas

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative cuntas cuntais Vocative a chuntais a chuntasa Genitive cuntais cuntas Dative cuntas cuntais

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an cuntas na cuntais Genitive an chuntais na gcuntas Dative leis an gcuntas don chuntas leis na cuntais

Derived terms

• ar chuntas ar bith
• breac-chuntas
• cuntas a thabhairt ar
• cuntas airgid
• cuntas bainc
• cuntas béil
• cuntas caipitil
• cuntas coigiltis
• cuntas costas
• cuntas deiridh
• cuntas iarbháis
• cuntas reatha
• cuntas speansas
• cuntasach
• cuntasóir
• lá an chuntais
• leabhar cuntais
• mionchuntas
• seic-chuntas
• stoc-chuntas

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cuntas	chuntas	gcuntas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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