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cáis

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish cáise, from Latin cāseus.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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cáis f (genitive singular cáise, nominative plural cáiseanna)

  1. cheese
    Is maith liom cáis Fhrancach.I like French cheese.
Declension
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Declension of cáis (second declension)
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cháis na cáiseanna
genitive na cáise na gcáiseanna
dative leis an gcáis
don cháis
leis na cáiseanna
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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cáis m

  1. inflection of cás:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. (nonstandard) nominative/dative plural

Mutation

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Mutated forms of cáis
radical lenition eclipsis
cáis cháis gcáis

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

Further reading

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 74, page 40