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cáith

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cáith,[1] from Proto-Celtic *kwātis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kweh₁t- (“to shake”).[2] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic càth.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cáith f (genitive singular cátha)

  1. chaff

Declension

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Declension of cáith (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative cáith
vocative a cháith
genitive cátha
dative cáith
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an cháith
genitive na cátha
dative leis an gcáith
don cháith

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of cáith
radical lenition eclipsis
cáith cháith gcáith

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kʷāti-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 175
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 148

Further reading

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