cainnt

Irish

Noun

cainnt f (genitive singular cainnte, nominative plural cainnteanna)

1. Superseded spelling of caint.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cainnt	chainnt	gcainnt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan͈ʲtʲ/

Noun

cainnt f

1. verbal noun of canaid
   1. act of speaking
2. speech, talk, conversation

Descendants

• Irish: caint
• Manx: caaynt
• Scottish Gaelic: cainnt

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cainnt	chainnt	cainnt 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), “cainnt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cainnt (“act of speaking; speech, talk, conversation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰaiɲtʰʲ/

Noun

cainnt f (genitive singular cainnte, plural cainntean)

1. speech, language
2. discourse, conversation
3. language, tongue

Synonyms

• (language): cànan

Derived terms

• cainnt-chluich (“pun”)
• cainnt-sanais (“sign language”)
• gnàthas-cainnt (“idiom”)
• saorsa cainnte (“freedom of speech”)

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “cainnt”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cainnt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language