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caismirt

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cosmart.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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caismirt f (genitive singular caismirte, nominative plural caismirtí)

  1. (liteary) signal (usually by sound, especially of battle), din, alarm
  2. conflict, argument, contention
  3. discussion

Declension

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Declension of caismirt (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative caismirt caismirtí
vocative a chaismirt a chaismirtí
genitive caismirte caismirtí
dative caismirt caismirtí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an chaismirt na caismirtí
genitive na caismirte na gcaismirtí
dative leis an gcaismirt
don chaismirt
leis na caismirtí

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of caismirt
radical lenition eclipsis
caismirt chaismirt gcaismirt

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. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “caismirt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 108
  2. ^ Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caismirt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 275, page 97
  4. ^ caismirt”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy