cainnt

cainnt f (genitive singular cainnte, nominative plural cainnteanna)

1. Superseded spelling of caint.

• IPA^(key): /kan͈ʲtʲ/

cainnt f

1. verbal noun of canaid
   1. act of speaking
2. speech, talk, conversation

• Irish: caint
• Manx: caaynt
• Scottish Gaelic: cainnt

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “cainnt”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

From Old Irish cainnt (“act of speaking; speech, talk, conversation”).

• IPA^(key): /kʰaiɲtʰʲ/

cainnt f (genitive singular cainnte, plural cainntean)

1. speech, language
2. discourse, conversation
3. language, tongue

• (language): cànan

• cainnt-chluich (“pun”)
• cainnt-sanais (“sign language”)
• gnàthas-cainnt (“idiom”)
• saorsa cainnte (“freedom of speech”)

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “cainnt”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN