cae

See also: CAE, caé, -cae, ca'e, ca'é, and cáe

Irish

Noun

cae m (genitive singular cae, nominative plural caenna)

  1. Alternative form of caoth (“boghole, swamp-hole; ditch”)

Declension
Declension of cae

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cae caenna
Vocative a chae a chaenna
Genitive cae caenna
Dative cae caenna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cae na caenna
Genitive an chae na gcaenna
Dative leis an gcae

don chae

 leis na caenna

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cae chae gcae
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkae/

Verb

cae

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of caer.
  2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of caer.
  3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of caer.

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh kay (“hedge; enclosure”), from Proto-Celtic *kagyom (compare Cornish ke, Breton kae, Old Irish caí), from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰom (compare Latin cohum, English haw), from *kagʰ-. More at cau.

Pronunciation

Noun

cae m (plural caeau)

  1. field
    Beth yw’r ysgubor ar ganol y cae? ― What’s the barn in the middle of the field?
    [1]

Verb

cae

  1. (literary) third-person singular present indicative/future of cau

Alternative forms
  • caeiff, caeith (colloquial)

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
cae gae nghae chae
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. They Thought You’d Say This
  • Angharad Fychan and Ann Parry Owen, editors (2014), “cae”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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