cadjin

See also: Cadjin

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish coitchenn (whence also Irish coiteann and Scottish Gaelic coitcheann), from Old Irish coitchen, from Proto-Celtic *kom-teges-nos.[1][2]

Adjective

cadjin

  1. normal, unexceptional, commonplace
  2. popular, lowbrow
  3. colloquial

Antonyms

Mutation

Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
cadjinchadjingadjin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. Joseph Vendryes, Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien
  2. T. F. O’Rahilly, Ériu 13:158
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