# cairde
## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɑːɾˠdʲə/, /ˈkaːɾˠdʲə/

### Etymology 1

From Old Irish cairde (“pact, convenant, peace”), a special use of cara (“friendship”), related to Etymology 2 below.

#### Noun

cairde m (genitive singular cairde)
* respite
    Synonym: spás
    gan chairde ― without respite
* (business) credit
    Synonym: creidmheas
    ar cairde ― on credit
* delay
    Synonym: moill

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
nominative
cairde
vocative
a chairde
genitive
cairde
dative
cairde
forms with the definite article
case
singular
nominative
an cairde
genitive
an chairde
dative
leis an gcairde don chairde :

##### Derived terms

* cairdeach

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Alternative forms

* cáirde (dated)

#### Noun

cairde m pl
* plural of cara

### Mutation

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

### References

* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 185, page 93
* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 147
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 21, page 11
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cairde”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Middle Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkar͈ʲdʲə/

### Noun

cairde
* nominative/vocative/accusative/genitive plural of cara

### Mutation

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

## Old Irish
### Etymology

From carae +‎ -e.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkar͈ʲdʲe]

### Noun

cairde f (genitive cairdi, nominative plural cairdi)
* covenant
** 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. 91$^c$1
    No scrútain-se, in tan no mbíinn isnaib fochaidib, dús in retarscar cairde ṅDǽ ⁊ a remcaissiu, ⁊ ní tucus-sa insin, in ru·etarscar fa naic.I used to consider, when I was in the tribulations, [to see] whether the covenant of God and his providence had departed, and I didn't understand that, whether it had departed or not.

#### Declension

Feminine iā-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | cairde$^L$ | cairdi$^L$ | cairdi |
| Vocative | cairde$^L$ | cairdi$^L$ | cairdi |
| Accusative | cairdi$^N$ | cairdi$^L$ | cairdi |
| Genitive | cairde | cairde$^L$ | cairde$^N$ |
| Dative | cairdi$^L$ | cairdib | cairdib |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

#### Descendants

* Irish: cairde

### Mutation

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), “cairde”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language