cathais

Irish

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish cathais (“martial vigilance, watch”), from Old Irish cath (“battle, fight”) + fess (“spending the night”).

Noun

cathais f (genitive singular cathaise, nominative plural cathaisí)

  1. (literary) vigil, watch
Declension
Declension of cathais (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cathais cathaisí
vocative a chathais a chathaisí
genitive cathaise cathaisí
dative cathais cathaisí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an chathais na cathaisí
genitive na cathaise na gcathaisí
dative leis an gcathais
don chathais 		leis na cathaisí

Etymology 2

Noun

cathais f (genitive singular cathaise)

  1. alternative form of caithis (“fondness, affection; charm, attraction”)
Declension
Declension of cathais (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative cathais
vocative a chathais
genitive cathaise
dative cathais
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an chathais
genitive na cathaise
dative leis an gcathais
don chathais

Mutation

Mutated forms of cathais
radical lenition eclipsis
cathais chathais gcathais

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

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.