cách

See also: cach, Cach, cac'h, càch, and cạch

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷākʷos; cognate with Middle Welsh pawb (modern Welsh pob).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaːx/

Pronoun

cách (genitive cáich)

  1. everyone
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6b22
      Ní latt aní ara·rethi et ní lat in cách forsa mmitter.
      What you assail is not yours, and not everyone whom you judge is yours.

Usage notes

Often modified by the definite article in when defined by a relative clause.

Derived terms

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
cách chách cách
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • Rudolf Thurneysen (1940) A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 490, page 310
  • cách” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from .

Noun

cách

  1. way, manner, fashion
    cách làm việcthe way of working
    một cách nhanh chóngquickly, rapidly
  2. (grammar, linguistics) grammatical case
    sở hữu cách/cách sở hữuthe genitive case
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Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from .

Verb

cách

  1. to be distant from, to be separated from
Derived terms
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Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from .

Verb

cách

  1. (only in compounds) to change, to reform
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