captaen

Irish

Alternative forms

  • caiftín (Ulster)
  • caiptín, captaoin, captaon
  • caiphtín (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French capitaine, from Late Latin capitāneus, from Latin caput (“head”).

Pronunciation

Noun

captaen m (genitive singular captaein, nominative plural captaein)

  1. captain (person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel)
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
      Ba ghnáthach le captaen óg luinge teacht ar cuaird go tig an cheannaidhe go minic agus do bhíodh sé ana-cheanamhail ar Mháire Bhán.
      A young ship’s captain had the custom of often visiting the merchant’s house and he was very fond of Máire Bhán.
  2. captain (military rank)
  3. captain (member of a sports team designated to make decisions)

Declension

Declension of captaen (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative captaen captaein
vocative a chaptaein a chaptaena
genitive captaein captaen
dative captaen captaein
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an captaen na captaein
genitive an chaptaein na gcaptaen
dative leis an gcaptaen
don chaptaen 		leis na captaein

Mutation

Mutated forms of captaen
radical lenition eclipsis
captaen chaptaen gcaptaen

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

References

  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, § 230, page 116

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