caoine
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish caíne (“gentleness, pleasantness, beauty”), from caín (“fine, good, fair, beautiful; soft, smooth; soft, gentle; fine, clement”). By surface analysis, caoin + -e.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcaoine f (genitive singular caoine)
Declension
editDeclension of caoine
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Synonyms
editDerived terms
edit- eascaoine (“ungentleness, roughness”)
Adjective
editcaoine
- inflection of caoin (“smooth, polished; kind, gentle”):
Mutation
editIrish 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
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 caíne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic
editNoun
editcaoine f
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