cách

See also: cach, Cach, cac'h, càch, and cạch

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷākʷos, cognate with Middle Welsh pawb (modern Welsh pob); from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂-kʷo-, cognate with Old Church Slavonic какъ (kakŭ, “what kind of”), Lithuanian kõks (“what kind of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaːx/

Pronoun

cách (genitive cáich)

1. everyone
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6^b22

     Ní latt aní ara·rethi et ní lat in cách forsa mmitter.

     What you assail is not yours, and not everyone whom you judge is yours.

Usage notes

Often modified by the definite article in when defined by a relative clause.

Derived terms

• cach (determiner)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cách	chách	cách pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 490, page 310
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cách”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kajk̟̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kat̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kat̚˦˥]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 格.

Noun

cách

1. way, manner, fashion

   cách làm việc ― the way of working

   một cách nhanh chóng ― quickly, rapidly

2. (grammar, linguistics) grammatical case

   sở hữu cách/cách sở hữu ― the genitive case

Derived terms

Derived terms

• cách thức
• kiểu cách
• phong cách
• tính cách
• tư cách

 

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 隔.

Verb

cách

1. to be distant from, to be separated from

Derived terms

Derived terms

• cách biệt
• cách li
• cách trở
• khoảng cách
• ngăn cách
• xa cách

 

Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from 革.

Verb

cách

1. (only in compounds) to change, to reform

Derived terms

Derived terms

• cách mạng
• cách mệnh
• cách tân
• cải cách