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carráiste

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English cariage, from Old Northern French cariage, from carier (to carry).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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carráiste m (genitive singular carráiste, nominative plural carráistí)

  1. carriage (wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power)
  2. (rail transport) carriage, railroad car
    carráiste traenachrailway carriage
  3. (obsolete, also in the plural) baggage

Declension

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Declension of carráiste (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative carráiste carráistí
vocative a charráiste a charráistí
genitive carráiste carráistí
dative carráiste carráistí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an carráiste na carráistí
genitive an charráiste na gcarráistí
dative leis an gcarráiste
don charráiste
leis na carráistí

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of carráiste
radical lenition eclipsis
carráiste charráiste gcarráiste

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. ^ carráiste”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sommerfelt, Alf (1922) The Dialect of Torr, County Donegal, volume I: Phonology, Christiania [Oslo]: Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania, section 291, page 95
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 441, page 142

Further reading

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