• IPA^(key): /kiːnʲ/

From Old Irish caín.

caoin (genitive singular masculine caoin, genitive singular feminine caoine, plural caoine, comparative caoine)

1. smooth, delicate, polished
2. kind, gentle, refined

From Middle Irish caín (“smooth finished side; especially the outer surface of a wall, etc.”), a substantivization of caín (“fine, beautiful”).

caoin f (genitive singular caoine)

1. smooth surface

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

caoin (present analytic caoineann, future analytic caoinfidh, verbal noun caoineadh, past participle caointe)

1. (transitive, intransitive) keen, lament
2. (transitive, intransitive) cry, weep

• éagaoin

• → English: keen

• IPA^(key): /kʰɯːɲ/

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

caoin (past chaoin, future caoinidh, verbal noun caoineadh, past participle caointe)

1. mourn, lament, grieve

   Synonym: caoidh

2. cry, weep

   Synonym: guil

From Middle Irish caín (“smooth finished side; especially the outer surface of a wall, etc.”), a substantivization of caín (“fine, beautiful”).

caoin f (genitive singular caoine, no plural)

1. exterior, outer side (of garment)

   Antonym: ascaoin

• caoin air ascaoin (“inside out”)

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “caoin”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 caín”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “caínid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language