"cac" meaning in Scottish Gaelic

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Noun

IPA: /kʰaxk/ Forms: caca [genitive, singular]
Etymology: From Middle Irish and Old Irish cacc (“dung, excrement”), from Proto-Celtic *kakkā. Etymology templates: {{inh|gd|mga|-}} Middle Irish, {{inh|gd|sga|cacc||dung, excrement}} Old Irish cacc (“dung, excrement”), {{inh|gd|cel-pro|*kakkā}} Proto-Celtic *kakkā Head templates: {{head|gd|noun|||||||genitive singular|caca|||||||no plural|||-||||||{{{pl4}}}|||cat2=|f10accel-form=p|f11accel-form=genpl|f1accel-form=dat|s|f2accel-form=dat|s|f3accel-form=dat|s|f4accel-form=gen|s|f5accel-form=gen|s|f6accel-form=gen|s|f7accel-form=gen|s|f8accel-form=p|f9accel-form=p|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} cac m (genitive singular caca, no plural), {{gd-noun|g=m|gen=caca|pl=-}} cac m (genitive singular caca, no plural)
  1. excrement Tags: masculine, no-plural
    Sense id: en-cac-gd-noun-re3anJVC Categories (other): Feces Disambiguation of Feces: 78 0 22 0
  2. (vulgar) shit Tags: masculine, no-plural, vulgar
    Sense id: en-cac-gd-noun-hfwX9waa
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: poll-caca (english: cesspool)
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /kʰaxk/ Forms: chac [past], cacaidh [future], cac [noun-from-verb], cacadh [noun-from-verb], cacte [participle, past], no-table-tags [table-tags], cac [error-unrecognized-form], chac [error-unrecognized-form]
Etymology: From Middle Irish caccaid (“excretes”, verb), from cacc (“dung, excrement”). See Etymology 1 above. Etymology templates: {{inh|gd|mga|caccaid||excretes|pos=v}} Middle Irish caccaid (“excretes”, verb) Head templates: {{head|gd|verb|past|chac|future|cacaidh|verbal noun|cac|or|cacadh|past participle|cacte}} cac (past chac, future cacaidh, verbal noun cac or cacadh, past participle cacte)
  1. (slang) to excrete, defecate Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-cac-gd-verb-z-VOeq0b Categories (other): Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header: 19 16 39 27
  2. (slang, vulgar) to shit Tags: slang, vulgar
    Sense id: en-cac-gd-verb-t44pvCs4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "cesspool",
      "translation": "cesspool",
      "word": "poll-caca"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "mga",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Irish",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "cacc",
        "4": "",
        "5": "dung, excrement"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish cacc (“dung, excrement”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "*kakkā"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *kakkā",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Irish and Old Irish cacc (“dung, excrement”), from Proto-Celtic *kakkā.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "caca",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "10": "caca",
        "11": "",
        "12": "",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "17": "no plural",
        "18": "",
        "19": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "20": "-",
        "21": "",
        "22": "",
        "23": "",
        "24": "",
        "25": "",
        "26": "{{{pl4}}}",
        "27": "",
        "28": "",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "genitive singular",
        "cat2": "",
        "f10accel-form": "p",
        "f11accel-form": "genpl",
        "f1accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f2accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f3accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f4accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f5accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f6accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f7accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f8accel-form": "p",
        "f9accel-form": "p",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "cac m (genitive singular caca, no plural)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "g": "m",
        "gen": "caca",
        "pl": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "cac m (genitive singular caca, no plural)",
      "name": "gd-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
  "lang_code": "gd",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "78 0 22 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "gd",
          "name": "Feces",
          "orig": "gd:Feces",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "excrement"
      ],
      "id": "en-cac-gd-noun-re3anJVC",
      "links": [
        [
          "excrement",
          "excrement"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "no-plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "shit"
      ],
      "id": "en-cac-gd-noun-hfwX9waa",
      "links": [
        [
          "shit",
          "shit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(vulgar) shit"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "no-plural",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰaxk/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cac"
}

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  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "mga",
        "3": "caccaid",
        "4": "",
        "5": "excretes",
        "pos": "v"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Irish caccaid (“excretes”, verb)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Irish caccaid (“excretes”, verb), from cacc (“dung, excrement”). See Etymology 1 above.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chac",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cacaidh",
      "tags": [
        "future"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cac",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-verb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cacadh",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-verb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cacte",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l-self",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cac",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chac",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "10": "cacadh",
        "11": "past participle",
        "12": "cacte",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "past",
        "4": "chac",
        "5": "future",
        "6": "cacaidh",
        "7": "verbal noun",
        "8": "cac",
        "9": "or"
      },
      "expansion": "cac (past chac, future cacaidh, verbal noun cac or cacadh, past participle cacte)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
  "lang_code": "gd",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "19 16 39 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to excrete, defecate"
      ],
      "id": "en-cac-gd-verb-z-VOeq0b",
      "links": [
        [
          "excrete",
          "excrete"
        ],
        [
          "defecate",
          "defecate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) to excrete, defecate"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "to shit"
      ],
      "id": "en-cac-gd-verb-t44pvCs4",
      "links": [
        [
          "shit",
          "shit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, vulgar) to shit"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰaxk/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cac"
}
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    "Pages with 10 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header",
    "Scottish Gaelic lemmas",
    "Scottish Gaelic masculine nouns",
    "Scottish Gaelic nouns",
    "Scottish Gaelic palindromes",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Middle Irish",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Middle Irish",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
    "Scottish Gaelic verbs",
    "gd-noun 2",
    "gd:Feces"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "cesspool",
      "translation": "cesspool",
      "word": "poll-caca"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "mga",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Irish",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "cacc",
        "4": "",
        "5": "dung, excrement"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish cacc (“dung, excrement”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "*kakkā"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *kakkā",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Irish and Old Irish cacc (“dung, excrement”), from Proto-Celtic *kakkā.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "caca",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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        "10": "caca",
        "11": "",
        "12": "",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "17": "no plural",
        "18": "",
        "19": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "20": "-",
        "21": "",
        "22": "",
        "23": "",
        "24": "",
        "25": "",
        "26": "{{{pl4}}}",
        "27": "",
        "28": "",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "genitive singular",
        "cat2": "",
        "f10accel-form": "p",
        "f11accel-form": "genpl",
        "f1accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f2accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f3accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f4accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f5accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f6accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f7accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f8accel-form": "p",
        "f9accel-form": "p",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "cac m (genitive singular caca, no plural)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "g": "m",
        "gen": "caca",
        "pl": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "cac m (genitive singular caca, no plural)",
      "name": "gd-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
  "lang_code": "gd",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "excrement"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "excrement",
          "excrement"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "no-plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Scottish Gaelic vulgarities"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "shit"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shit",
          "shit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(vulgar) shit"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "no-plural",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰaxk/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cac"
}

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    "Pages with 10 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header",
    "Scottish Gaelic lemmas",
    "Scottish Gaelic palindromes",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Middle Irish",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Middle Irish",
    "Scottish Gaelic verbs",
    "gd:Feces"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "mga",
        "3": "caccaid",
        "4": "",
        "5": "excretes",
        "pos": "v"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Irish caccaid (“excretes”, verb)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Irish caccaid (“excretes”, verb), from cacc (“dung, excrement”). See Etymology 1 above.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chac",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cacaidh",
      "tags": [
        "future"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cac",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-verb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cacadh",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-verb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cacte",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l-self",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cac",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chac",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "10": "cacadh",
        "11": "past participle",
        "12": "cacte",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "past",
        "4": "chac",
        "5": "future",
        "6": "cacaidh",
        "7": "verbal noun",
        "8": "cac",
        "9": "or"
      },
      "expansion": "cac (past chac, future cacaidh, verbal noun cac or cacadh, past participle cacte)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
  "lang_code": "gd",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Scottish Gaelic slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to excrete, defecate"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "excrete",
          "excrete"
        ],
        [
          "defecate",
          "defecate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) to excrete, defecate"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Scottish Gaelic slang",
        "Scottish Gaelic vulgarities"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to shit"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shit",
          "shit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, vulgar) to shit"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰaxk/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cac"
}

Download raw JSONL data for cac meaning in Scottish Gaelic (4.5kB)

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  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: cac/Scottish Gaelic 'radical' base_tags=set()",
  "path": [
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  ],
  "section": "Scottish Gaelic",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "cac",
  "trace": ""
}

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  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'lenition'",
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