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From Old Irish cosmart.
caismirt f (genitive singular caismirte, nominative plural caismirtí)
- (liteary) signal (usually by sound, especially of battle), din, alarm
- conflict, argument, contention
- discussion
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “caismirt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 108
- ^ Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caismirt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 275, page 97
- ^ “caismirt”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy