cáis

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cais"

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑːʃ/[1], /kaːʃ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish cáise, from Latin cāseus.

Alternative forms

Noun

cáis f (genitive singular cáise, nominative plural cáiseanna)

  1. cheese
    Is maith liom cáis Fhrancach. ― I like French cheese.
Declension
Declension of cáis (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cáis cáiseanna
vocative a cháis a cháiseanna
genitive cáise cáiseanna
dative cáis cáiseanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cháis na cáiseanna
genitive na cáise na gcáiseanna
dative leis an gcáis
don cháis 		leis na cáiseanna
Derived terms
  • cáis Parma (“Parmesan cheese”)
  • cáis uachtair
  • cáis Eilvéiseach (“Swiss cheese”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

cáis m

  1. inflection of cás:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. (nonstandard) nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Mutated forms of cáis
radical lenition eclipsis
cáis cháis gcáis

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 74, page 40
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