- cainnt
- speech, Irish caint; from can, say, q.v. Stokes gives the stem as *kan(s)ti, root kans, Skr çasti, prise, from çams, speak, Latin censeo.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.
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