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cuain

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Irish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kuənʲ/, /kuːnʲ/

Etymology 1

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From Old Irish cúan (litter of pups or other small animals).

Alternative forms

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Noun

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cuain f (genitive singular cuaine, nominative plural cuaineanna)

  1. a litter (of young)
  2. brood
  3. pack; band, company
Declension
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Declension of cuain (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cuain cuaineanna
vocative a chuain a chuaineanna
genitive cuaine cuaineanna
dative cuain cuaineanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an chuain na cuaineanna
genitive na cuaine na gcuaineanna
dative leis an gcuain
don chuain
leis na cuaineanna

Etymology 2

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Noun

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cuain m

  1. vocative/genitive singular of cuan (haven; harbour; place of refuge; bow, curve; bowed, stooped, person)

Mutation

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Mutated forms of cuain
radical lenition eclipsis
cuain chuain gcuain

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

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish cúan.

Noun

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cuain f (genitive singular cuaine, plural cuainean)

  1. litter of puppies or piglets

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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cuain m

  1. genitive singular of cuan

Mutation

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Mutation of cuain
radical lenition
cuain chuain

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

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cuain”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cúan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language