cabhsa

Irish

Alternative forms

  • cabhas

Etymology

From Middle English cauce, from Anglo-Norman caucee (“route, highway”), from Vulgar Latin *calciāta, from either Latin calx (“limestone”) or calciō (“to stamp with the heels, tread”), from calx (“heel”). [from 16th c.]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkausˠə/

Noun

cabhsa m (genitive singular cabhsa, nominative plural cabhsaí)

  1. causeway
  2. path, lane

Declension

Declension of cabhsa (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cabhsa cabhsaí
vocative a chabhsa a chabhsaí
genitive cabhsa cabhsaí
dative cabhsa cabhsaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cabhsa na cabhsaí
genitive an chabhsa na gcabhsaí
dative leis an gcabhsa
don chabhsa 		leis na cabhsaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of cabhsa
radical lenition eclipsis
cabhsa chabhsa gcabhsa

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

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