cuntas

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cuntas, borrowed from Anglo-Norman cuntes.

Noun

cuntas m (genitive singular cuntais, nominative plural cuntais)

verbal noun of cuntais
count
account (bank, etc.), record, tally
1. reckoning
2. narration
3. inquiry
4. chronicle
  Synonym: croinic

Declension

Declension of cuntas

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cuntas	cuntais
Vocative	a chuntais	a chuntasa
Genitive	cuntais	cuntas
Dative	cuntas	cuntais

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an cuntas	na cuntais
Genitive	an chuntais	na gcuntas
Dative	leis an gcuntas don chuntas	leis na cuntais

Synonyms

(record): taifead, tuairisc

Derived terms

Terms derived from cuntas

ar chuntas ar bith (“on any account”)
breac-chuntas (“sketchy account”)
cuntasach (“account-keeping, particular”, adjective)
cuntas airgid (“cash account”)
cuntas a thabhairt ar (“recite”, verb)
cuntas bainc (“bank account”)
cuntas béil (“oral account, verbal account”)
cuntas brabúis agus caillteanais (“profit and loss account”)
cuntas bréagach (“misrepresentation”)
cuntas buille ar bhuille, cuntas céim ar chéim, cuntas mion, mionchuntas (“blow-by-blow”)

cuntas buiséid (“budget account”)
cuntas caipitil (“capital account”)
cuntas calraí (“calorie counting”)
cuntas coigiltis (“saver account, savings account”)
cuntas costas, cuntas speansas (“expense account”)
cuntas creidmheasa (“charge account”)
cuntas deiridh (“final account”)
cuntas eascró (“escrow account”)
cuntas fála (“receivable account”)
cuntas iarbháis (“obit”)

cuntasóir (“accountant”)
cuntas reatha (“checking account; current account; running commentary”)
cuntas scríofa (“pen portrait”)
cuntas taisce (“deposit account”)
cuntas taistil (“travelogue”)
lá an chuntais (“the day of reckoning”)
leabhar cuntais, leabhar cuntas (“account book, journal, ledger”)
seic-chuntas (“checking account”)
stoc-chuntas (“stock-account”)

Related terms

cuntasóireacht (“accountancy; book-keeping”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cuntas	chuntas	gcuntas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

"cuntas" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“account” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“chronicle” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“count” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“counting” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“delineation” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“depiction” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“description” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“folio” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“history” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“log” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“portrait” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“recital” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“recitation” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“reckoning” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“recount” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“report” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“tally” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“testament” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“cuntas” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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