caint

See also: Caint and cain't

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kan̠ʲtʲ/
  • (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /kan̠ʲtʲ/, /kəin̠ʲtʲ/

Noun

caint f (genitive singular cainte, nominative plural cainteanna)

  1. speech
  2. talking (acting as a verbal noun for a verb with no finite forms)
    Tá sé ag caint liom.
    He's talking to me

Declension
Declension of caint

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative caint cainteanna
Vocative a chaint a chainteanna
Genitive cainte cainteanna
Dative caint cainteanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an chaint na cainteanna
Genitive na cainte na gcainteanna
Dative leis an gcaint

don chaint

 leis na cainteanna

Derived terms
  • alamais chainte f (“incoherent speech”)
  • cainteoir m (“speaker”)
  • mionchaint f (“small talk”)
  • síorchaint f (“(act of) talking continually; never-ending talk”)

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

Further reading
  • “cainnt” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “cainnt” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 106.
  • "caint" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Entries containing “caint” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “caint” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
  • “caint” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
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