cain

cain (countable and uncountable, plural cains)

1. Alternative form of kain

• Tubal-cain

• NIAC, Naic, Inca, cinA, Nica, inca, NACI

• IPA^(key): [kanʲ]

cain

1. Alternative form of cani used before the preverb ro-
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 2^c4

     Cain ro·noíbad Abracham tri hiris? In tree ǽm didiu fa nacc?

     Hasn’t Abraham been sanctified through faith? Through it then indeed or not?

cain

1. Lamy spelling of ka'i

From Middle Welsh cein, from Proto-Celtic *kanis.

• IPA^(key): /kai̯n/
• Rhymes: -ai̯n

cain (feminine singular cain, plural ceinion, equative ceined, comparative ceinach, superlative ceinaf)

1. fine
2. lovely
3. intricate

• caineirian (“common twayblade”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cain”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies