cach

• cech

Shortened from cách (“everyone, everything”), from Proto-Celtic *kʷākʷos; cognate with Middle Welsh pawb (modern Welsh pob).

• IPA^(key): /kax/

cach

1. each, every
   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 190b4

     At·robair cach cenél

     Every gender can say it.

Mostly invariable, but the following forms are also rarely attested:

• cacha, cecha (genitive singular feminine; plural of all cases and genders)
• caich (genitive singular neuter)

• Rudolf Thurneysen (1940, reprinted 2003)D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 490, page 310
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “cach, cech”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

From Proto-Brythonic *kax, from Proto-Celtic *kakkos, *kakkā, from a very widespread child-language word for feces.

• IPA^(key): /kaːχ/

cach m (uncountable)

1. shit

• cachlwyth
• cachu

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950-), “cach”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies