caife

See also: caifé

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”). Doublet of caifé.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkafʲə/, /ˈkɑfʲə/[2]
  • (Mayo) IPA(key): /ˈkɑfʲiː/[3] (corresponding to the form caifí)

Noun

caife m (genitive singular caife, nominative plural caifí)

  1. coffee
  2. alternative form of caifé (“café”)

Declension

Declension of caife (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative caife caifí
vocative a chaife a chaifí
genitive caife caifí
dative caife caifí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an caife na caifí
genitive an chaife na gcaifí
dative leis an gcaife
don chaife 		leis na caifí

Derived terms

  • briseadh caife m (“coffee break”)
  • caife mhoca m (“mocha”)
  • caife oighrithe m (“iced coffee”)
  • caifechupán m (“coffee cup”)
  • cupán caife m (“coffee cup”)
  • dríodar caife m (“coffee-grounds”)
  • meilteoir caife m (“coffee-grinder”)
  • muileann caife m (“coffee-mill”)
  • pónaire chaife f (“coffee bean”)
  • pota caife m (“coffee-pot”)
  • síol caife m (“coffee bean”)
  • siopa caife m (“coffee shop”)
  • síothlán caife m (“percolator”)
  • sos caife m (“coffee break”)
  • tábla caife m (“coffee table”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of caife
radical lenition eclipsis
caife chaife gcaife

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

References

  1. ^ “caife”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 146
  3. ^ Stockman, Gerard (1974) The Irish of Achill, Co. Mayo (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 2), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast, section 1082, page 175

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