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cabaire

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Irish

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Etymology

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From cab (mouth) +‎ -aire.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cabaire m (genitive singular cabaire, nominative plural cabairí)

  1. chatterbox, babbler (someone who babbles)

Declension

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Declension of cabaire (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cabaire cabairí
vocative a chabaire a chabairí
genitive cabaire cabairí
dative cabaire cabairí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cabaire na cabairí
genitive an chabaire na gcabairí
dative leis an gcabaire
don chabaire
leis na cabairí

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of cabaire
radical lenition eclipsis
cabaire chabaire gcabaire

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. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 370, page 125