caint
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish cainnt (“speech, talk, conversation; act of speaking”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kan̠ʲtʲ/
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Noun
caint f (genitive singular cainte, nominative plural cainteanna)
- speech
- talking (acting as a verbal noun for a verb with no finite forms)
- Tá sé ag caint liom.
- He's talking to me
Declension
Declension of caint
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
- alamais chainte f (“incoherent speech”)
- cainteoir m (“speaker”)
- mionchaint f (“small talk”)
- síorchaint f (“(act of) talking continually; never-ending talk”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
caint | chaint | gcaint |
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
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cainnt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 106
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caint”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “caint”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “caint”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- “caint”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy