See also: Cait, càit, càit', cáit, and Cáit

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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cait m

  1. inflection of cat (cat):
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

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Mutated forms of cait
radical lenition eclipsis
cait chait gcait

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 67

Scottish Gaelic

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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cait

  1. inflection of cat:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

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Mutation of cait
radical lenition
cait chait

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Welsh

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Alternative forms

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  • (imperfect/conditional): caet
  • (imperfect subjunctive): caffit

Pronunciation

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Verb

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cait

  1. (literary) second-person singular imperfect indicative/imperfect subjunctive/conditional of cael

Mutation

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Mutated forms of cait
radical soft nasal aspirate
cait gait nghait chait

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  2. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  4. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
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