"caint" meaning in Irish

See caint in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /kɑin̠ʲtʲ/ [Munster], /kan̠ʲtʲ/ [Cois-Fharraige], /kain̠ʲtʲ/ [Cois-Fharraige], /kæn̠ʲtʲ/ [Ulster]
Etymology: From Old Irish cainnt (“speech, talk, conversation; act of speaking”). Etymology templates: {{inh|ga|sga|cainnt|t=speech, talk, conversation; act of speaking}} Old Irish cainnt (“speech, talk, conversation; act of speaking”) Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|cainte|||||||nominative plural|cainteanna|||||cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=}} caint f (genitive singular cainte, nominative plural cainteanna), {{ga-noun|f|~e|~eanna}} caint f (genitive singular cainte, nominative plural cainteanna) Inflection templates: {{ga-mut}} Forms: cainte [genitive, singular], cainteanna [nominative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], nominative [indefinite], caint [indefinite, singular], cainteanna [indefinite, plural], vocative [indefinite], a chaint [indefinite, singular], a chainteanna [indefinite, plural], genitive [indefinite], cainte [indefinite, singular], dative [indefinite], no-table-tags [table-tags], nominative [definite], an chaint [definite, singular], na cainteanna [definite, plural], genitive [definite], na cainte [definite, singular], na gcainteanna [definite, plural], dative [definite], leis an gcaint [definite, singular], don chaint [definite, singular], leis na cainteanna [definite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], caint [error-unrecognized-form], chaint [error-unrecognized-form], gcaint [error-unrecognized-form]
  1. speech Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-caint-ga-noun-BfthetVD
  2. talking (acting as a verbal noun for a verb with no finite forms) Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Talking
    Sense id: en-caint-ga-noun-1hS9njm4 Disambiguation of Talking: 2 98 Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 18 82 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 15 85 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cainnt (english: superseded) Derived forms: alamais chainte (english: incoherent speech) [feminine], bolgchaint (english: ventriloquism) [feminine], cainteach (english: talkative, chatty), cainteoir (english: speaker) [masculine], mionchaint (english: small talk) [feminine], síorchaint (english: (act of) talking continually; never-ending talk) [feminine]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "incoherent speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alamais chainte"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "ventriloquism",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bolgchaint"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "talkative, chatty",
      "word": "cainteach"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "speaker",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cainteoir"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "small talk",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mionchaint"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "(act of) talking continually; never-ending talk",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "síorchaint"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "cainnt",
        "t": "speech, talk, conversation; act of speaking"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish cainnt (“speech, talk, conversation; act of speaking”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish cainnt (“speech, talk, conversation; act of speaking”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cainte",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cainteanna",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cln",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nominative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caint",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cainteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vocative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a chaint",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a chainteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "genitive",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cainte",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cln",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nominative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an chaint",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na cainteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "genitive",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na cainte",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na gcainteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an gcaint",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don chaint",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis na cainteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caint",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chaint",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gcaint",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "10": "",
        "11": "nominative plural",
        "12": "cainteanna",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "cainte",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "caint f (genitive singular cainte, nominative plural cainteanna)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "~e",
        "3": "~eanna"
      },
      "expansion": "caint f (genitive singular cainte, nominative plural cainteanna)",
      "name": "ga-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "speech"
      ],
      "id": "en-caint-ga-noun-BfthetVD",
      "links": [
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 85",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 90",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 98",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "ga",
          "name": "Talking",
          "orig": "ga:Talking",
          "parents": [
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He's talking to me",
          "text": "Tá sé ag caint liom.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "talking (acting as a verbal noun for a verb with no finite forms)"
      ],
      "id": "en-caint-ga-noun-1hS9njm4",
      "links": [
        [
          "talk",
          "talk"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɑin̠ʲtʲ/",
      "tags": [
        "Munster"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kan̠ʲtʲ/",
      "tags": [
        "Cois-Fharraige"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kain̠ʲtʲ/",
      "tags": [
        "Cois-Fharraige"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kæn̠ʲtʲ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "superseded",
      "word": "cainnt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "caint"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Irish feminine nouns",
    "Irish lemmas",
    "Irish nouns",
    "Irish second-declension nouns",
    "Irish terms derived from Old Irish",
    "Irish terms inherited from Old Irish",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "ga:Talking"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "incoherent speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alamais chainte"
    },
    {
      "english": "ventriloquism",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bolgchaint"
    },
    {
      "english": "talkative, chatty",
      "word": "cainteach"
    },
    {
      "english": "speaker",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cainteoir"
    },
    {
      "english": "small talk",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mionchaint"
    },
    {
      "english": "(act of) talking continually; never-ending talk",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "síorchaint"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "sga",
        "3": "cainnt",
        "t": "speech, talk, conversation; act of speaking"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish cainnt (“speech, talk, conversation; act of speaking”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish cainnt (“speech, talk, conversation; act of speaking”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cainte",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cainteanna",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cln",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nominative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caint",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cainteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vocative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a chaint",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a chainteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "genitive",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cainte",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cln",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nominative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an chaint",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na cainteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "genitive",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na cainte",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na gcainteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an gcaint",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don chaint",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis na cainteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caint",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chaint",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gcaint",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "nominative plural",
        "12": "cainteanna",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "cainte",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
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        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "caint f (genitive singular cainte, nominative plural cainteanna)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
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        "3": "~eanna"
      },
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      "name": "ga-mut"
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  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "speech"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Irish terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "He's talking to me",
          "text": "Tá sé ag caint liom.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "talking (acting as a verbal noun for a verb with no finite forms)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "talk",
          "talk"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɑin̠ʲtʲ/",
      "tags": [
        "Munster"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kan̠ʲtʲ/",
      "tags": [
        "Cois-Fharraige"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kain̠ʲtʲ/",
      "tags": [
        "Cois-Fharraige"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kæn̠ʲtʲ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "superseded",
      "word": "cainnt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "caint"
}

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  "called_from": "inflection/865",
  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: caint/Irish 'radical' base_tags=set()",
  "path": [
    "caint"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "caint",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'lenition'",
  "path": [
    "caint"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "caint",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'eclipsis'",
  "path": [
    "caint"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "caint",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Irish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.