cáin
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cáin (“law, rule, fine, tax, tribute”). The verb is from Old Irish cáinid (“revile, rail at, reproach”), from the noun.
Pronunciation
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Noun
cáin f (genitive singular cánach or cána, nominative plural cánacha)
- (literary)
- law, rule, regulation, set of laws or rules or regulations
- due, tribute
- fine, penalty
- Synonym: fíneáil
- impost, tax, taxation
Declension
Standard inflection (fifth declension):
Declension of cáin
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Alternative inflection (third declension):
Declension of cáin
Derived terms
- cáin ancaireachta (“anchorage”)
- cáin charbóin (“carbon tax”)
- cáin ioncaim (“income-tax”)
- cáinaisnéis (“(governmental) budget”)
Verb
cáin (present analytic cáineann, future analytic cáinfidh, verbal noun cáineadh, past participle cáinte) (transitive, intransitive)
Conjugation
conjugation of cáin (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Alternative conjugation:
conjugation of cáin (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cáin | cháin | gcáin |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cáin”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Template:R:ga:Dinneen
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáinid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
cáin f
Inflection
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
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Vocative | |||
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Dative | |||
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
cáin | cháin | cáin pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
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- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- Irish literary terms
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- Irish third-declension nouns
- Irish verbs
- Irish transitive verbs
- Irish intransitive verbs
- Irish first-conjugation verbs of class A
- ga:Law
- ga:Taxation
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish nouns
- Old Irish feminine nouns
- Old Irish nouns with empty inflection tables
- Old Irish masculine or feminine i-stem nouns
- sga:Law
- sga:Taxation