cairéal
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Irish cairél (“quarry”), apparently based on English quarry.
Noun
editcairéal m (genitive singular cairéil, nominative plural cairéil)
Declension
editDeclension of cairéal
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
edit- cairéalacht f (“(act of) quarrying”)
- cairéalaí m (“quarryman”)
- cairéalaigh (“quarry”, verb)
- cloch chairéil f (“quarry-stone”)
Mutation
edit| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| cairéal | chairéal | gcairéal |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cairéal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cairél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language