ceap

• IPA^(key): /capˠ/^[1]

From Middle Irish cepp (“tree stump; stock”), from Latin cippus (“stake”).^[2] The verb is denominal from the noun.^[3]

ceap m (genitive singular cip, nominative plural ceapa)

1. block (cuboid base for cutting)
2. base (something from which other things extend)
3. pad (block of paper; flat surface where an aircraft may land or be launched)

ceap (present analytic ceapann, future analytic ceapfaidh, verbal noun ceapadh, past participle ceaptha) (transitive, intransitive)

1. to invent
2. to appoint, assign (name to a post, select for a position)
3. to think (communicate to oneself in one’s mind, be of the opinion that, guess, reckon)
4. to catch (capture or snare, intercept an object in the air etc.)

• ceapaire
• coincheap

From French cèpe, from Latin cippus (“stake”); see etymology 1.

ceap m (genitive singular cip, nominative plural ceapa)

1. cep, porcini

• ceap dearnála (“darning mushroom”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ceap”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ceap”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 127
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ceapaim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 127
• “cep”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ceap”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

From Proto-West Germanic *kaup (“trade, purchase”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæ͜ɑːp/

ċēap m

1. cattle, any commodity
2. sale
3. trade
4. bargain
5. price
6. property

• ċīepe (“for sale”)

• ċēapian
• ċēapmann
• ċīepan

• Middle English: chep, chepe
  • English: cheap

From Middle Irish cepp (“tree stump; stock”), from Latin cippus (“stake”).

• IPA^(key): /kʲʰɛhp/

ceap m (genitive singular cip, plural cip or ceapan or ceapannan)

1. block, lump
2. last (shoemaker's)
3. cap (head garment)
4. cape (piece of land)
5. fret (on a string instrument)

• buabhall Ceap (“Cape buffalo”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cepp”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language