cuntas

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish cuntas, borrowed from Anglo-Norman cuntes.[2]

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈkuːn̪ˠt̪ˠəsˠ/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈkun̪ˠt̪ˠəsˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkʌn̪ˠt̪ˠəsˠ/

Noun

cuntas m (genitive singular cuntais, nominative plural cuntais)

  1. verbal noun of cuntais
  2. amount
  3. account (bank; narration; etc.)
  4. reckoning

Declension

Declension of cuntas (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cuntas cuntais
vocative a chuntais a chuntasa
genitive cuntais cuntas
dative cuntas cuntais
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cuntas na cuntais
genitive an chuntais na gcuntas
dative leis an gcuntas
don chuntas 		leis na cuntais

Derived terms

  • ar chuntas ar bith
  • breac-chuntas
  • cuntas a thabhairt ar
  • cuntas airgid
  • cuntas bainc
  • cuntas béil
  • cuntas caipitil
  • cuntas coigiltis
  • cuntas costas
  • cuntas deiridh
  • cuntas iarbháis
  • cuntas reatha
  • cuntas speansas
  • cuntasach
  • cuntasóir
  • lá an chuntais
  • leabhar cuntais
  • mionchuntas
  • seic-chuntas
  • stoc-chuntas

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuntas
radical lenition eclipsis
cuntas chuntas gcuntas

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

References

  1. ^ “cuntas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuntas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cunntas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 217
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuntas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “cuntas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Middle English

Noun

cuntas

  1. alternative form of countesse
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