cairdeas

See also: càirdeas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cairdes (friendship, alliance, pact).

Pronunciation

Noun

cairdeas m (genitive singular cairdis)

  1. friendship, amity

Declension

Declension of cairdeas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative cairdeas
vocative a chairdis
genitive cairdis
dative cairdeas
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an cairdeas
genitive an chairdis
dative leis an gcairdeas
don chairdeas

Derived terms

  • anamchairdeas (spiritual guidance)
  • cairdeas Críost (sponsorship, gossipred, godparent)
  • daonchairdeas (philanthropy)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cairdeas
radical lenition eclipsis
cairdeas chairdeas gcairdeas

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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