cnaipe

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cnap,[1] borrowed from Old Norse knappr and/or Old English cnæp.[2]

Pronunciation
  • (Munster, Aran) IPA(key): /ˈknˠapʲə/
  • (Connemara, Mayo) IPA(key): /ˈkɾˠapʲə/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkɾˠɨ̞pʲə/[3] (as if spelled cnuipe); /ˈkɾˠɛpʲə/[4] (as if spelled cnoipe)

Noun

cnaipe m (genitive singular cnaipe, nominative plural cnaipí)

  1. button
  2. bead
  3. stud
  4. (computing) button or key on a keyboard

Declension
Declension of cnaipe

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cnaipe cnaipí
Vocative a chnaipe a chnaipí
Genitive cnaipe cnaipí
Dative cnaipe cnaipí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cnaipe na cnaipí
Genitive an chnaipe na gcnaipí
Dative leis an gcnaipe

don chnaipe

 leis na cnaipí

Derived terms
  • beacán cnaipe (“button mushroom”)
  • cnaipe sosa (“pause button”)
  • cnaipeadóir (“button-maker”)
  • cnaipín (“small button”)
  • crúca cnaipe (“button-hook”)
  • muisiriún cnaipe (“button mushroom”)
  • poll cnaipe (“button-hole”)
  • stadchnaipe (“pause button”)

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

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cnap”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Greene, David (1973) “The influence of Scandinavian on Irish”, in Bo Almqvist & David Greene, editors, Proceedings of the Seventh Viking Congress‎, Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, pages 75–82
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39
  4. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 96

Further reading
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