cáise

See also: caise, cáisè, càise, cǎisè, and càisè

Irish

Noun

cáise f

1. genitive singular of cáis (“cheese”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cáise

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cáise	cháise	gcáise

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

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cāseus.

Noun

cáise m

1. cheese

   Synonyms: fáiscre, grús, maethal, tanach

Inflection

Masculine io-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	cáise	—	—
vocative	cáisi	—	—
accusative	cáiseN	—	—
genitive	cáisiL	—	—
dative	cáisiuL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: cáis
• Manx: caashey
• Scottish Gaelic: càise

Mutation

Mutation of cáise

radical	lenition	nasalization
cáise	cháise	cáise pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáise”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language