canaid
Irish
Pronunciation
- (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈkɑn̪ˠədʲ/
Verb
canaid
- (Munster) third-person plural present indicative of can
Usage notes
The equivalent in the standard language is the analytic construction canann siad.
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| canaid | chanaid | gcanaid |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *kaneti (compare Welsh canu), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkanɨðʲ]
Verb
canaid (conjunct ·cain, verbal noun cétal)
- to sing
- Old Irish treatise on the Psalter, published in Hibernica Minora, (1894, Oxford: Clarendon Press), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 6, line 186
- Ceist: in tre metur fa tre prois ro·céta int psailm?
- A question: were the psalms sung in meter or in prose?
- Old Irish treatise on the Psalter, published in Hibernica Minora, (1894, Oxford: Clarendon Press), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 6, line 186
Inflection
Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, a future, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Abs. | canu | cani | canaid | canait | canair | caniter | ||
| Conj. | ·cun; ·canim | ·cain | ·canar | ·cantar | |||||
| Rel. | canas | canmae | cantae | ||||||
| Imperfect indicative | ·canad | ·cantais | ·cainte | ||||||
| Preterite | Abs. | cáchain | |||||||
| Conj. | ·cechainn | ||||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | ro·cachain | ro·cachnutar | ro·cét | ro·céta | ||||
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| Present subjunctive | Abs. | ||||||||
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| Imperative | cain | canad | canaid | cantar | |||||
| Verbal noun | cétal | ||||||||
| Past participle | céte | ||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | ceti | ||||||||
Derived terms
- ar·cain
- con·cain
- do·aurchain
- do·inchain
- fo·acain
- fo·cain
- for·cain
Descendants
- Irish: can
- Scottish Gaelic: can
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| canaid | chanaid | canaid pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “canaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language