caiscín

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

caiscín m (genitive singular caiscín)

1. whole meal; whole-meal bread, brown bread

Declension

Declension of caiscín (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative caiscín vocative a chaiscín genitive caiscín dative caiscín forms with the definite article case singular nominative an caiscín genitive an chaiscín dative leis an gcaiscín don chaiscín

Derived terms

• arán caiscín m (“whole-meal bread”)
• min chaiscín f (“whole meal”)
• plúr caiscín m (“wholemeal flour”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of caiscín

radical	lenition	eclipsis
caiscín	chaiscín	gcaiscín

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) “caiscín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “caiscín”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “caiscín”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm