cairdeas

See also: càirdeas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cairdes (“friendship, alliance, pact”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːɾˠdʲəsˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːɾˠdʲəsˠ/

Noun

cairdeas m (genitive singular cairdis)

1. friendship, amity

Declension

Declension of cairdeas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative cairdeas vocative a chairdis genitive cairdis dative cairdeas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an cairdeas genitive an chairdis dative leis an gcairdeas don chairdeas

Derived terms

• anamchairdeas (“spiritual guidance”)
• cairdeas Críost (“sponsorship, gossipred, godparent”)
• daonchairdeas (“philanthropy”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cairdeas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cairdeas	chairdeas	gcairdeas

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cairdeas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cairdes”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language