canaid

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn̪ˠədʲ/

Verb

canaid

1. (Munster) third-person plural present indicative of can

Usage notes

The equivalent in the standard language is the analytic construction canann siad.

Mutation

Mutated forms of canaid

radical	lenition	eclipsis
canaid	chanaid	gcanaid

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

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kaneti (compare Welsh canu), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.nəðʲ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈka.nɪðʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈka.nɨðʲ]

Verb

canaid (conjunct ·cain, verbal noun cétal)

1. to sing

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, a future, a subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	abs.	canu	cani	canaid			canait	canair	caniter
	conj.	·cun; ·canim		·cain			·canat	·canar	·cantar
	rel.			canas	canmae		cantae
imperfect indicative				·canad			·cantais	·cainte
preterite	abs.			cáchain
	conj.			·cechainn
	rel.
perfect	deut.			ro·cachain			ro·cachnutar	ru·cét	ro·céta
	prot.
future	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.			canaid
	conj.			·cana			·canat
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative			cain	canad		canaid			cantar
verbal noun		cétal
past participle		céte
verbal of necessity		ceti

Quotations

• Old Irish treatise on the Psalter, published in Hibernica Minora, (1894, Oxford: Clarendon Press), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 6, line 186

  Ceist: in tre metur fa tre prois ro·céta int psailm?

  A question: were the psalms sung in meter or in prose?

• c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 64^a13

  Ní fris ru·chét a profeta.

  It is not with respect to it that it was sung by the prophet.

Derived terms

• ar·cain
• con·cain
• do·aurchain
• do·inchain
• for·cain
• fo·acain
• fo·cain

Descendants

• Irish: can
• Scottish Gaelic: can

Mutation

Mutation of canaid

radical	lenition	nasalization
canaid	chanaid	canaid pronounced with /ɡ-/

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “canaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language