cabhsa

Irish

Alternative forms
  • cabhas

Etymology

From Middle English cauce, from Anglo-Norman caucee (“route, highway”), from Vulgar Latin *calciāta, from either Latin calx (“limestone”) or calciō (“to stamp with the heels, tread”), from calx (“heel”). [from 16th c.]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkausˠə/

Noun

cabhsa m (genitive singular cabhsa, nominative plural cabhsaí)

  1. causeway
  2. path, lane

Declension
Declension of cabhsa

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cabhsa cabhsaí
Vocative a chabhsa a chabhsaí
Genitive cabhsa cabhsaí
Dative cabhsa cabhsaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cabhsa na cabhsaí
Genitive an chabhsa na gcabhsaí
Dative leis an gcabhsa

don chabhsa

 leis na cabhsaí

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cabhsa chabhsa gcabhsa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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