See cainnt in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"english": "pun",
"translation": "pun",
"word": "cainnt-chluich"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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"translation": "sign language",
"word": "cainnt-sanais"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "gnàthas-cainnt"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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}
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"name": "inh"
}
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"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
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},
{
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},
{
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"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cainnte",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cainnt",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "(a') chainnt",
"source": "declension",
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"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "na cainntean",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cainnte",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "na cainnte",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "cainntean",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nan cainntean",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "(a') chainnt",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cainntibh",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "chainnt",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
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"16": "",
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"21": "",
"22": "",
"23": "",
"24": "",
"25": "",
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"27": "",
"28": "",
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"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
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"f11accel-form": "genpl",
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},
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[
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[
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],
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]
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{
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"language, tongue"
],
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[
"tongue",
"tongue"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kʰãĩɲtʲ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/kʰãĩɲdʲ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/kʰɛɲdʲ/",
"note": "South Argyll"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"topics": [
"language",
"linguistics",
"human-sciences",
"sciences"
],
"word": "cànan"
}
],
"word": "cainnt"
}
{
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"Pages with entries",
"Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header",
"Scottish Gaelic feminine nouns",
"Scottish Gaelic lemmas",
"Scottish Gaelic links with redundant alt parameters",
"Scottish Gaelic links with redundant wikilinks",
"Scottish Gaelic nouns",
"Scottish Gaelic second-declension nouns",
"Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish",
"Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish",
"gd-noun 2",
"gd:Language"
],
"derived": [
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"english": "pun",
"translation": "pun",
"word": "cainnt-chluich"
},
{
"english": "sign language",
"translation": "sign language",
"word": "cainnt-sanais"
},
{
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "gnàthas-cainnt"
},
{
"english": "freedom of speech",
"translation": "freedom of speech",
"word": "saorsa cainnte"
}
],
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"3": "cainnt",
"4": "",
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},
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"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Irish cainnt (“act of speaking; speech, talk, conversation”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cainnte",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "cainntean",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "IIb feminine noun",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "cainnt",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "cainntean",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cainnte",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "chainntean",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cainnt",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "cainntean",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cainntibh",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "(a') chainnt",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "cainntean",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "na cainntean",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cainnte",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "na cainnte",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "cainntean",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nan cainntean",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "(a') chainnt",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "cainntean",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "na cainntean",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cainntibh",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "chainnt",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "chainntean",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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"15": "",
"16": "",
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"22": "",
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"25": "",
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],
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}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kʰãĩɲtʲ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/kʰãĩɲdʲ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/kʰɛɲdʲ/",
"note": "South Argyll"
}
],
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{
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"word": "cànan"
}
],
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}
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