Irish
Etymology
From the root of caimseach (“lying, deceitful”) + -óg. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Dinneen's glosses of caimse are 'a curlet or ringlet of hair; deceit, fraud', but DIL and Ó Dónaill only gloss it 'shirt'
Pronunciation
Noun
caimseog f (genitive singular caimseoige, nominative plural caimseoga)
- fib
Declension
Declension of caimseog (second declension)
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singular
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plural
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caimseog
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caimseoga
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| vocative
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a chaimseog
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a chaimseoga
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| genitive
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caimseoige
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caimseog
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| dative
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caimseog
caimseoig (archaic, dialectal)
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caimseoga
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singular
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plural
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an chaimseog
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na caimseoga
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| genitive
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na caimseoige
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na gcaimseog
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leis an gcaimseog
leis an gcaimseoig (archaic, dialectal)
don chaimseog
don chaimseoig (archaic, dialectal)
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leis na caimseoga
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Descendants
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “caimseog”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 149; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “caimseog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN