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Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

canaid

  1. (Munster) third-person plural present indicative of can

Usage notes edit

The equivalent in the standard language is the analytic construction canann siad.

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
canaid chanaid gcanaid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Celtic *kaneti (compare Welsh canu), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n-.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

canaid (conjunct ·cain, verbal noun cétal)

  1. to sing
    • Old Irish treatise on the Psalter, published in Hibernica Minora, (1894, Oxford: Clarendon Press), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 6, line 186
      Ceist: in tre metur fa tre prois ro·céta int psailm?
      A question: were the psalms sung in meter or in prose?

Inflection edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Irish: can
  • Scottish Gaelic: can

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
canaid chanaid canaid
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit