cadjin

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Manx

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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cadjin

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

Antonyms

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Mutation

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cadjin chadjin gadjin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1987) Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique
  2. ^ O’Rahilly, T. F. (1942) “Notes, Mainly Etymological”, in Ériu, volume 13, page 158