cáfraith

Irish

From cáith (“chaff”) +‎ bruith (“boiling”).

cáfraith f (genitive singular cáfraithe)

Declension of cáfraith

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	an cháfraith
Genitive	na cáfraithe
Dative	leis an gcáfraith don cháfraith

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cáfraith	cháfraith	gcáfraith
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ “cáfraith”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 311, page 109

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáthbruith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cáṫ-ḃruiṫ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 122
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cáfraith”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN