caire

See also: Caire

English

Noun

caire (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of coir (“coconut husk fibre”).

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin quadrum (“square”). Compare the borrowed doublets quadre and quadro.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkaj.ɾə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈkaj.ɾe]
  • Audio (Catalonia):(file)

Noun

caire m (plural caires)

  1. corner of a polygon or polyhedron
  2. look, aspect, appearance
  3. (archaic) regular tetragon, square

Derived terms

Further reading

Occitan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaj.ɾe/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan [Term?], inherited from Latin quadrum.

Noun

caire m (plural caires)

  1. corner
  2. side; edge
  • cairar

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan cayre, from Latin cadere. Medieval Occitan also had cazer, chazer, from a Late Latin variant cadēre.[1]

Alternative forms

Verb

caire

  1. to fall
Conjugation
    Lengadocian (Central Occitan)
simple compound
infinitive caire aver casent
gerund èsser casut use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle casent —
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative ieu tu el nosautres vosautres eles
present casi cases cai casèm casètz cason
imperfect casiái casiás casiá casiam casiatz casián
preterite cairai cairàs cairà cairem cairetz cairàn
future casèri casères casèt casèrem casèretz casèron
conditional cairiái cairiás cairiá cairiam cairiatz cairián
conditional 2nd form1
compound
tenses 		present perfect use the present tense of aver + past participle
pluperfect use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
past anterior use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
future perfect use the future tense of aver + past participle
conditional perfect use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive que ieu que tu que el que nosautres que vosautres que eles
present casa casas casa casam casatz casan
imperfect casèsse casèsses casèsse casèssem casèssetz casèsson
compound
tenses 		past use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
pluperfect use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative — tu — nosautres vosautres —
cai casam casètz 1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Buchi, Éva, Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–) “*/ˈkad-e-/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kariyā. Compare Welsh caredd.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkarʲe]

Noun

caire f

  1. crime, sin
  2. fault, reproach

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative caireL cairiL cairi
vocative caireL cairiL cairi
accusative cairiN cairiL cairi
genitive caire caireL caireN
dative cairiL cairib cairib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Quotations

  • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 49c9
    Con·aicelt ⁊ do·rolaig in peccad ⁊ ní n‑árraim ar chairi dó.
    He has concealed and forgiven the sin and he has not considered it a reproach to him.

Descendants

  • Irish: coir
  • Scottish Gaelic: coire

Mutation

Mutation of caire
radical lenition nasalization
caire chaire caire
pronounced with /ɡ-/

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

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