cainnt

Irish

Noun

cainnt f (genitive singular cainnte, nominative plural cainnteanna)

  1. Superseded spelling of caint.

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cainnt chainnt gcainnt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kan͈ʲtʲ/

Noun

cainnt f

  1. verbal noun of canaid
    1. act of speaking
  2. speech, talk, conversation

Descendants
  • Irish: caint
  • Manx: caaynt
  • Scottish Gaelic: cainnt

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
cainnt chainnt cainnt
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cainnt (“act of speaking; speech, talk, conversation”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kʰaiɲtʰʲ/

Noun

cainnt f (genitive singular cainnte, plural cainntean)

  1. speech, language
  2. discourse, conversation
  3. language, tongue

Declension
Declension of cainnt (class IIb feminine noun)
Indefinite
Singular Plural
Nominative cainnt cainntean
Genitive cainnte chainntean
Dative cainnt cainntean; cainntibh*
Definite
Singular Plural
Nominative (a') chainnt (na) cainntean
Genitive (na) cainnte (nan) cainntean
Dative (a') chainnt (na) cainntean; cainntibh*
Vocative (a) chainnt (a) chainntean

*obsolete form, was used until the 19th century

Synonyms

Derived terms

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cainnt”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cainnt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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