canaid

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn̪ˠədʲ/

Verb

canaid

1. (Munster) third-person plural present indicative of can

Usage notes

The equivalent in the standard language is the analytic construction canann siad.

Mutation

Mutated forms of canaid

radical	lenition	eclipsis
canaid	chanaid	gcanaid

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

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kaneti (compare Welsh canu), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkanɨðʲ]

Verb

canaid (conjunct ·cain, verbal noun cétal)

1. to sing
   • Old Irish treatise on the Psalter, published in Hibernica Minora, (1894, Oxford: Clarendon Press), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 6, line 186

     Ceist: in tre metur fa tre prois ro·céta int psailm?

     A question: were the psalms sung in meter or in prose?

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, a future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.	canu	cani	canaid			canait	canair	caniter
	Conj.	·cun; ·canim		·cain				·canar	·cantar
	Rel.			canas	canmae		cantae
Imperfect indicative				·canad			·cantais	·cainte
Preterite	Abs.			cáchain
	Conj.			·cechainn
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.			ro·cachain			ro·cachnutar	ro·cét	ro·céta
	Prot.
Future	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Conditional
Present subjunctive	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Past subjunctive
Imperative			cain	canad		canaid			cantar
Verbal noun		cétal
Past participle		céte
Verbal of necessity		ceti

Derived terms

• ar·cain
• con·cain
• do·aurchain
• do·inchain
• for·cain
• fo·acain
• fo·cain

 

Descendants

• Irish: can
• Scottish Gaelic: can

Mutation

Mutation of canaid

radical	lenition	nasalization
canaid	chanaid	canaid pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “canaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language