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cac

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Translingual

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Symbol

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cac

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Chuj.

See also

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Version of eci (to walk, step, go). Used by adults when speaking to toddlers while teaching them how to walk.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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cac (aorist caca, participle cacur)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) to walk slowly
  2. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) to learn (how) to walk
    Synonym: përkëmb

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • [1] active verb cac (aorist: caca; participle: cacur) • Fjalori Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)

Aromanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin cacō. Compare Romanian căca, cac.

Verb

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cac first-singular present indicative (past participle cãcatã or cãcate)

  1. (vulgar, reflexive) to shit
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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Irish and Old Irish cacc (dung, excrement),[4] from Proto-Celtic *kakkā.

Noun

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cac m (genitive singular caca, nominative plural cacanna)

  1. faeces, excrement
  2. (vulgar, offensive) shit
  3. (mining) raw ore
  4. verbal noun of cac
Declension
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Declension of cac (third declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cac cacanna
vocative a chac a chacanna
genitive caca cacanna
dative cac cacanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cac na cacanna
genitive an chaca na gcacanna
dative leis an gcac
don chac
leis na cacanna
Derived terms
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Interjection

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cac!

  1. (vulgar) shit!, crap!

Etymology 2

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From Old Irish caccaid (to excrete, verb), from cacc (dung, excrement).[5]

Verb

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cac (present analytic cacann, future analytic cacfaidh, verbal noun cac, past participle cactha)

  1. excrete, defecate
  2. (vulgar) shit
Conjugation
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Mutation

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Mutated forms of cac
radical lenition eclipsis
cac chac gcac

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. ^ Ó Sé, Diarmuid (2000) Gaeilge Chorca Dhuibhne [The Irish of Corkaguiny] (in Irish), Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann [Linguistics Institute of Ireland], →ISBN, section 232, page 110
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 146
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 411, page 135
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cacc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  5. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “caccaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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K'iche'

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Etymology

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Likely cognate to Yucatec Maya k’áak’

Noun

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cac

  1. (Classical K'iche') fire

Old English

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Etymology

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Of uncertain origin. Perhaps derived from *cacian (to defecate), from Latin cacō (I shit).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cac m (nominative plural cacas)

  1. dung, excrement

Declension

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Strong a-stem:

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “cack”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Romanian

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Verb

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cac

  1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of căca

Scottish Gaelic

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Irish and Old Irish cacc (dung, excrement), from Proto-Celtic *kakkā.

Noun

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cac m (genitive singular caca, no plural)

  1. excrement
  2. (vulgar) shit
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From Old Irish caccaid (excretes, verb), from cacc (dung, excrement). See Etymology 1 above.

Verb

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cac (past chac, future cacaidh, verbal noun cac or cacadh, past participle cacte)

  1. (slang) excrete, defecate
  2. (slang, vulgar) shit

Mutation

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Mutation of cac
radical lenition
cac chac

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

References

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