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caoin.

smooth, delicate, polished

5 characters1 syllables approx.Gaeilge language

Meaning & usage

adj/kiːnʲ/
  1. smooth, delicate, polished

  2. kind, gentle, refined

Where this word comes from

From Old Irish caín.

verb/kiːnʲ/
  1. to keen, lament

    ambitransitive
  2. to cry, weep

    ambitransitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle Irish caínid, from Old Irish coínid, from Brythonic (compare Welsh cwyn (“lament”)).

noun/kiːnʲ/
  1. smooth surface

    feminine
Where this word comes from

From Middle Irish caín (“smooth finished side”), a substantivization of caín (“fine, beautiful”).

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