cainteach

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish cainntech.[2] By surface analysis, caint +‎ -each.

Pronunciation

Adjective

cainteach (genitive singular masculine caintigh, genitive singular feminine caintí, plural cainteacha, comparative caintí)

  1. talkative, chatty
    Synonym: caintiúil

Declension

Declension of cainteach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative cainteach chainteach cainteacha;
chainteacha2
vocative chaintigh cainteacha
genitive caintí cainteacha cainteach
dative cainteach;
chainteach1 		chainteach;
chaintigh (archaic) 		cainteacha;
chainteacha2
Comparative níos caintí
Superlative is caintí

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of cainteach
radical lenition eclipsis
cainteach chainteach gcainteach

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

References

  1. ^ “cainteach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cainntech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 224, page 114

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