Irish
Etymology
From French caféine, from café (“coffee”).
Noun
caiféin f (genitive singular caiféine)
- caffeine
Declension
Declension of caiféin (second declension, no plural)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of caiféin
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lenition
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eclipsis
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chaiféin
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gcaiféin
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caiféin”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “caffeine”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “caiféin”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm