cuntas

Irish

Alternative forms

• cunntas, cúntas, cuntus, cúntus, cunntus

Etymology

From Middle Irish cuntas, borrowed from Anglo-Norman cuntes.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːn̪ˠt̪ˠəsˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkʊn̪ˠt̪ˠəsˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌn̪ˠt̪ˠəsˠ/

Noun

cuntas m (genitive singular cuntais, nominative plural cuntais)

1. verbal noun of cuntais
2. amount
3. account (bank; narration; etc.)
4. reckoning

Declension

Declension of cuntas (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cuntas cuntais vocative a chuntais a chuntasa genitive cuntais cuntas dative cuntas cuntais forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cuntas na cuntais genitive an chuntais na gcuntas dative leis an gcuntas don chuntas leis na cuntais

• Alternative plural: cuntaisí (Cois Fharraige)

Derived terms

• ar chuntas ar bith
• breac-chuntas
• cuntas a thabhairt ar
• cuntas airgid
• cuntas bainc
• cuntas béil
• cuntas caipitil
• cuntas coigiltis
• cuntas costas
• cuntas deiridh
• cuntas iarbháis
• cuntas reatha
• cuntas speansas
• cuntasach
• cuntasóir
• lá an chuntais
• leabhar cuntais
• mionchuntas
• seic-chuntas
• stoc-chuntas

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuntas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cuntas	chuntas	gcuntas

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

Further reading

• “cuntas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cunntas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 217
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuntas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “cuntas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuntas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle English

Noun

cuntas

1. Alternative form of countesse