cuntas

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cuntas, borrowed from Anglo-Norman cuntes.

Noun

cuntas m (genitive singular cuntais, nominative plural cuntais)

1. verbal noun of cuntais
2. count
3. account (bank, etc.), record, tally
   1. reckoning
   2. narration
   3. inquiry
   4. chronicle

      Synonym: croinic

Declension

Declension of cuntas

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative cuntas cuntais Vocative a chuntais a chuntasa Genitive cuntais cuntas Dative cuntas cuntais

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an cuntas na cuntais Genitive an chuntais na gcuntas Dative leis an gcuntas don chuntas leis na cuntais

Synonyms

• (record): taifead, tuairisc

Derived terms

• ar chuntas ar bith (“on any account”)
• breac-chuntas (“sketchy account”)
• cuntas a thabhairt ar (“recite”, verb)
• cuntas airgid (“cash account”)
• cuntas bainc (“bank account”)
• cuntas béil (“oral account, verbal account”)
• cuntas brabúis agus caillteanais (“profit and loss account”)
• cuntas bréagach (“misrepresentation”)
• cuntas buille ar bhuille, cuntas céim ar chéim, cuntas mion, mionchuntas (“blow-by-blow”)
• cuntas buiséid (“budget account”)
• cuntas caipitil (“capital account”)
• cuntas calraí (“calorie counting”)
• cuntas coigiltis (“saver account, savings account”)
• cuntas costas, cuntas speansas (“expense account”)
• cuntas creidmheasa (“charge account”)
• cuntas deiridh (“final account”)
• cuntas eascró (“escrow account”)
• cuntas fála (“receivable account”)
• cuntas iarbháis (“obit”)
• cuntas reatha (“checking account; current account; running commentary”)
• cuntas scríofa (“pen portrait”)
• cuntas taisce (“deposit account”)
• cuntas taistil (“travelogue”)
• cuntasach (“account-keeping, particular”, adjective)
• cuntasóir (“accountant”)
• lá an chuntais (“the day of reckoning”)
• leabhar cuntais, leabhar cuntas (“account book, journal, ledger”)
• seic-chuntas (“checking account”)
• stoc-chuntas (“stock-account”)

 

Related terms

• cuntasóireacht (“accountancy; book-keeping”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cuntas	chuntas	gcuntas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuntas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “account”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “chronicle”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “count”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “counting”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “delineation”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “depiction”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “description”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “folio”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “history”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “log”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “portrait”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “recital”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “recitation”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “reckoning”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “recount”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “report”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “tally”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “testament”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuntas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language