caí

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cai"

Old Irish

Noun

caí f

1. verbal noun of ciïd

Inflection

Feminine indeclinable

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	caí	caí	caí
vocative	caí	caí	caí
accusative	caí	caí	caí
genitive	caí	caí	caí
dative	caí	caí	caí

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Scottish Gaelic: caoidh
• Manx: coe

Mutation

Mutation of caí

radical	lenition	nasalization
caí	chaí	caí pronounced with /ɡ-/

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “caí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈi/

Verb

caí

1. inflection of cair:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈi/ [kaˈi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ca‧í

Noun

caí m (plural caíes or caís)

1. tufted capuchin

Verb

caí

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of caer

Further reading

• “cay”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025