cén chaoi
Irish
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editcén chaoi (followed by the indirect relative a)
- (Connacht) how (interrogative)
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 21:
- ḱē n xȳ ə wil tū, ə æhŕ̥?
- [Cén chaoi a bhfuil tú, a athair?]
- How are you, father?
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edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cé”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Kuninao Nashimoto (2020 March) ニューエクスプレスプラス アイルランド語 (Nyū Ekusupuresu Purasu Airurando-go) [New Express Plus Irish] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, pages 17-19