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cach

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Allentiac

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Etymology

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From ca +‎ -ych.

Pronoun

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cach (second person singular)

  1. yours (second-person singular possessive pronoun)

References

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  • Willem F. H. Adelaar; Pieter C. Muysken (2004), Languages of the Andes, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
  • Luis de Valdivia (1607), Doctrina christiana y cathecismo en la lengua allentiac, que corre en la cuidad de S. Iuan de la Frontera, con vn Confessonario [sic], Arte, y Bocabulario breues. Compuesto por el padre Luys de Valdivia de la Compañia de Iesus, de la prouincia del Peru‎[1], En Lima : Por Francisco del Canto.

Middle Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cach.

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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cach

  1. each, every
    • c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 2, line 12:
      Dam ocus tinne in cach coiri.
      [There was] an ox and a side of bacon in each cauldron.

Descendants

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  • Irish: gach
  • Manx: dagh
  • Scottish Gaelic: gach

Mutation

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Mutation of cach
radical lenition nasalization
cach chach cach
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

Further reading

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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  • cech (usual form in the Milan glosses)

Etymology

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Shortened from cách (“everyone, everything”), from Proto-Celtic *kʷākʷos; cognate with Middle Welsh pawb (modern Welsh pob).

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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cach (usual form in the St Gall glosses; also common in the Würzburg glosses)

  1. each, every

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cach.

Inflection

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Mostly invariable, but the following forms are also rarely attested:

  • cacha, cecha (genitive singular feminine; plural of all cases and genders)
  • caich (genitive singular masculine and neuter)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Pronoun

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cach

  1. alternative spelling of cách

Mutation

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Mutation of cach
radical lenition nasalization
cach chach cach
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

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Totontepec Mixe

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Noun

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cach

  1. basket

Welsh

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Etymology

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From Proto-Brythonic *kax, from Proto-Celtic *kakkos, *kakkā, from a very widespread child-language word for feces.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cach m (uncountable)

  1. (vulgar) shit

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of cach
radical soft nasal aspirate
cach gach nghach chach

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

Further reading

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “cach”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies