cancar

Irish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin cancer. Compare Middle Irish cainncer (“cancer”).

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈkauŋkˠəɾˠ/

Noun

cancar m (genitive singular cancair)

  1. canker
  2. cantankerousness, peevishness, spleen
    Synonym: cantal
    Cad é atá ag cur cancair air?
    What's eating away at him?

Declension

Declension of cancar (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative cancar
vocative a chancair
genitive cancair
dative cancar
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an cancar
genitive an chancair
dative leis an gcancar
don chancar

Derived terms

  • cancrach (“can(tan)kerous”, adjective)
  • cancracht f (“cantankerousness”)
  • cancraigh (“to vex, annoy”)
  • cancrán m (“cantankerous person; crank”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cancar
radical lenition eclipsis
cancar chancar gcancar

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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