cairdeas

See also: càirdeas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cairdes (“friendship, alliance, pact”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːɾˠdʲəsˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːɾˠdʲəsˠ/

Noun

cairdeas m (genitive singular cairdis)

1. friendship, amity

Declension

Declension of cairdeas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative cairdeas Vocative a chairdis Genitive cairdis Dative cairdeas

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an cairdeas Genitive an chairdis Dative leis an gcairdeas don chairdeas

Derived terms

• anamchairdeas (“spiritual guidance”)
• cairdeas Críost (“sponsorship, gossipred, godparent”)
• daonchairdeas (“philanthropy”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cairdeas	chairdeas	gcairdeas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cairdeas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cairdes”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language