cuisle

From Middle Irish cuisle (“pipe, tube”), from Old Irish cusle, of obscure origin. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).^[1] Not related to Latin pulsus.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪʃlʲə/^[2]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkʊʃl̠ʲə/^[3]

cuisle f (genitive singular cuisle or cuisleann, nominative plural cuislí or cuisleanna or cuisleacha)

1. pulse (regular beat felt when the arteries are depressed)
2. (chiefly figuratively) vein, blood vessel
3. forearm, wrist
4. (figuratively) channel
5. (geology) seam
6. (music) flute
7. (architecture) flute (groove in a column)

• Alternative plural form: cuisleacha
• Archaic fifth-declension forms:

• (vein): féith (used of literal veins)
• (blood vessel): fuileadán (used of literal blood vessels)
• (forearm): rí
• (channel): géag, góilín
• (musical instrument): fliúit, feadóg mhór

• cuisleach (“veined”, adjective)
• cuisligh (“flow; flute; pipe”, verb)

• → English: acushla (from vocative a chuisle)
• → English: macushla (from mo chuisle (literally “my pulse”))

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuisle”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cuisle”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 212
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuisle”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cuisle”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cuisle”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

From Middle Irish cuisle (“pipe, tube”), from Old Irish cusle, of obscure origin. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew- (“to cover”).^[1] Not related to Latin pulsus.

cuisle f (plural cuislean)

1. a vein or artery
2. pulse
3. stream
4. pipe