caoine
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish caíne (“gentleness, pleasantness, beauty”), from caín (“fine, good, fair, beautiful; soft, smooth; soft, gentle; fine, clement”). By surface analysis, caoin + -e.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
caoine f (genitive singular caoine)
Declension edit
Declension of caoine
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
- eascaoine (“ungentleness, roughness”)
Adjective edit
caoine
- inflection of caoin (“smooth, polished; kind, gentle”):
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
caoine | chaoine | gcaoine |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caoine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 caíne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic edit
Noun edit
caoine f