ceannaí

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish cennaige.[1] By surface analysis, ceannaigh (“to buy”) +‎ -aí.

Pronunciation

Noun

ceannaí m (genitive singular ceannaí, nominative plural ceannaithe)

  1. merchant, trader, monger
    • 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:
      Fear saidhbhir agus ceannaidhe fairrge do b’eadh é.
      He was a rich man and a sea merchant.

Declension
Declension of ceannaí

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ceannaí ceannaithe
Vocative a cheannaí a cheannaithe
Genitive ceannaí ceannaithe
Dative ceannaí ceannaithe

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an ceannaí na ceannaithe
Genitive an cheannaí na gceannaithe
Dative leis an gceannaí

don cheannaí

 leis na ceannaithe

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

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cennaige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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