cadás

See also: cadas and Čadas

Irish

From Middle English cadas (“cotton wool, padding”), from Old French cadaz, from Old Occitan, from Old Catalan cadirs, cadins. Further history obscure. Cognate with English caddis.

cadás m (genitive singular cadáis, nominative plural cadáis)

Declension of cadás (first declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an cadás	na cadáis
genitive	an chadáis	na gcadás
dative	leis an gcadás don chadás	leis na cadáis

Mutated forms of *cadás*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
cadás	chadás	gcadás

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

^ Ó Sé, Diarmuid (2000), Gaeilge Chorca Dhuibhne [The Irish of Corkaguiny] (in Irish), Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann [Linguistics Institute of Ireland], →ISBN, section 181, page 92
^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 164
^ Ó Máille, T. S. (1974), Liosta Focal as Ros Muc [Word list from Rosmuck] (in Irish), Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: Irish University Press, →ISBN, page 32

Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “cadás”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 145; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cadás”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cadas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language