caoi

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish cáe (“way, path; manner, course, means”).[2]

Noun

caoi f (genitive singular caoi, nominative plural caíonna)

  1. (literary) way, path
  2. way, manner
  3. means, opportunity
  4. order, (proper) condition
Declension
Declension of caoi (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative caoi caíonna
vocative a chaoi a chaíonna
genitive caoi caíonna
dative caoi caíonna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an chaoi na caíonna
genitive na caoi na gcaíonna
dative leis an gcaoi
don chaoi 		leis na caíonna
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

caoi f (genitive singular caoi)

  1. alternative form of caí (“lament(ation)”)
Declension
Declension of caoi (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative caoi
vocative a chaoi
genitive caoi
dative caoi
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an chaoi
genitive na caoi
dative leis an gcaoi
don chaoi

Mutation

Mutated forms of caoi
radical lenition eclipsis
caoi chaoi gcaoi

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 155, page 79
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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