caín
Galician edit
Verb edit
caín
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from a Brythonic language, whence the diphthong. Compare Welsh cain, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kanyos. Conflated with an earlier form cain with the same meaning, which is from Proto-Celtic *kanis, of which *kanyos was a thematicized form.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
caín (superlative caínem)
Inflection edit
i-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | caín | caín | caín |
Vocative | caín | ||
Accusative | caín | caín | |
Genitive | caín | caíne | caín |
Dative | caín | caín | caín |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | caíni | caíni | |
Vocative | caíni | ||
Accusative | caíni | ||
Genitive | caín* caíne | ||
Dative | caínib | ||
Notes | *not when substantivized |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
caín | chaín | caín pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 caín”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language