Irish
Etymology
From Middle English cadas (“cotton wool, padding”), from Old French cadaz, from Old Occitan, from Old Catalan cadirs, cadins. Further history obscure. Cognate with English caddis.
Pronunciation
Noun
cadás m (genitive singular cadáis, nominative plural cadáis)
- cotton
- Synonym: cotún
Declension
Declension of cadás (first declension)
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Derived terms
- crios an chadáis
- cruimh chadáis
- flocas cadáis
- fuíoll cadáis
- muileann cadáis
- olann chadáis
- plandáil chadáis
- scaradh cadáis
- snáithe cadáis
- spól cadáis
- uige chadáis
Mutation
Mutated forms of cadás
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lenition
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eclipsis
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chadás
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gcadás
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Ó Sé, Diarmuid (2000) Gaeilge Chorca Dhuibhne [The Irish of Corkaguiny] (in Irish), Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann [Linguistics Institute of Ireland], →ISBN, section 181, page 92
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 164
- ^ Ó Máille, T. S. (1974) Liosta Focal as Ros Muc [Word List from Rosmuck] (in Irish), Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: Irish University Press, →ISBN, page 32
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “cadás”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 145; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cadás”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cadas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language