cáca

See also: caca, Caca, caça, caçà, căca, and ćaća

Irish

Etymology

From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”),[1] from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (“cake”), of unclear origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

cáca m (genitive singular cáca, nominative plural cácaí)

  1. cake (small mass of baked dough; thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter)
    Synonym: císte

Declension

Declension of cáca (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cáca cácaí
vocative a cháca a chácaí
genitive cáca cácaí
dative cáca cácaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cáca na cácaí
genitive an cháca na gcácaí
dative leis an gcáca
don cháca 		leis na cácaí

Derived terms

  • bosca an cháca m (“cake tin”)
  • cáca bacstaí m (“boxty”)
  • cáca baile m (“homemade cake”)
  • cáca bainise m (“wedding cake”)
  • cáca beag m (“pastry”)
  • cáca biotáille m (“tipsy cake”)
  • cáca boise m (“(small) cake”)
  • cáca caife m (“coffee cake”)
  • cáca cairéid m (“carrot cake”)
  • cáca cearbhais m (“seedcake”)
  • cáca éisc m (“fishcake”)
  • cáca gridille m (“griddlecake”)
  • cáca lá breithe m (“birthday cake”)
  • cáca meala m (“honey cake”)
  • cáca milis m (“cake (sweet dessert)”)
  • cáca minchoirce m (“oatcake”)
  • cáca ola m (“oil cake”)
  • cáca portáin m (“crab cake”)
  • cáca prátaí m (“potato cake”)
  • cáca reoánta m (“fancy cake”)
  • cáca rísíní m (“plum cake”)
  • cáca spúinse m (“sponge cake”)
  • cáca srathach m (“layer cake”)
  • cáca tae m (“tea-cake”)
  • cáca torthaí m (“fruit cake”)
  • cáca úll m (“apple-tart”)
  • meascán cáca m (“cake mix”)
  • stán cáca m (“cake tin”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cáca
radical lenition eclipsis
cáca cháca gcáca

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáca”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Ó Cuív, Brian (1968) The Irish of West Muskerry, Co. Cork: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 71, page 19; reprinted 1988
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 149

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