cantain

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cantain, a late verbal noun of canaid (“sings, recites”).

Noun

cantain f (genitive singular cantana)

  1. (nonstandard) verbal noun of can (“chant, sing”)
  2. chanting, singing
    1. birdsong

Declension
Declension of cantain

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun):

Case Singular
Nominative cantain
Vocative a chantain
Genitive cantana
Dative cantain

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an chantain
Genitive na cantana
Dative leis an gcantain

don chantain

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

Further reading
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