ceannaí
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish cennaige.[1] By surface analysis, ceannaigh (“to buy”) + -aí.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ceannaí m (genitive singular ceannaí, nominative plural ceannaithe)
- merchant, trader, monger
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
- Fear saidhbhir agus ceannaidhe fairrge do b’eadh é.
- He was a rich man and a sea merchant.
Declension
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Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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ceannaí | cheannaí | gceannaí |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cennaige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading
[edit]- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ceannuiġe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 127
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “ceannaiḋe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ceannaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN