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

Descendants

• →⇒ Yola: cusseraane

Mutation

Mutated forms of cabhsa

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cabhsa	chabhsa	gcabhsa

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cabhsa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN