"cuain" meaning in Irish

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Noun

IPA: /kuənʲ/, /kuːnʲ/
Etymology: From Old Irish cúan (“litter of pups or other small animals”). Etymology templates: {{inh|ga|sga|cúan|t=litter of pups or other small animals}} Old Irish cúan (“litter of pups or other small animals”) Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|cuaine|||||||nominative plural|cuaineanna|||||cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=}} cuain f (genitive singular cuaine, nominative plural cuaineanna), {{ga-noun|f|~e|~eanna}} cuain f (genitive singular cuaine, nominative plural cuaineanna) Forms: cuaine [genitive, singular], cuaineanna [nominative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], nominative [indefinite], cuain [indefinite, singular], cuaineanna [indefinite, plural], vocative [indefinite], a chuain [indefinite, singular], a chuaineanna [indefinite, plural], genitive [indefinite], cuaine [indefinite, singular], dative [indefinite], no-table-tags [table-tags], nominative [definite], an chuain [definite, singular], na cuaineanna [definite, plural], genitive [definite], na cuaine [definite, singular], na gcuaineanna [definite, plural], dative [definite], leis an gcuain [definite, singular], don chuain [definite, singular], leis na cuaineanna [definite, plural]
  1. a litter (of young) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-cuain-ga-noun-09NChFrK
  2. brood Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-cuain-ga-noun-eNbcAzME Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 3 57 3 38
  3. pack; band, company Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-cuain-ga-noun-~UMYGwuN
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cuan
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /kuənʲ/, /kuːnʲ/ Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], cuain [error-unrecognized-form], chuain [error-unrecognized-form], gcuain [error-unrecognized-form]
Head templates: {{head|ga|noun form|g=m}} cuain m Inflection templates: {{ga-mut}}
  1. vocative/genitive singular of cuan (“haven; harbour; place of refuge; bow, curve; bowed, stooped, person”) Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-cuain-ga-noun-PeojqON1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "form": "na cuaine",
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      ]
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      "source": "declension",
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          "company",
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      "ipa": "/kuənʲ/"
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      "ipa": "/kuːnʲ/"
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      "form": "dative",
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        "singular"
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        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Irish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (eaedd02 and 8fbd9e8). 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.