cáis
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "cais"
Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Irish cáise, from Latin cāseus.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]cáis f (genitive singular cáise, nominative plural cáiseanna)
- cheese
- Is maith liom cáis Fhrancach. ― I like French cheese.
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- cáis Parma (“Parmesan cheese”)
- cáis uachtair
- cáis Eilvéiseach (“Swiss cheese”)
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit]cáis m
- inflection of cás:
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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cáis | cháis | gcáis |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cáis”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cáis”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cáis”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 40
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