aicill

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish aiccill. Perhaps a variant form of aiccell (“act of preparing for”).

Noun

aicill f (genitive singular aicille)

1. (prosody) rime between final word of one line and a word in beginning or interior of next line

Declension

Declension of aicill (second declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative aicill vocative a aicill genitive aicille dative aicill forms with the definite article case singular nominative an aicill genitive na haicille dative leis an aicill don aicill

Mutation

Mutated forms of aicill

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aicill	n-aicill	haicill	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aicill”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aiccill”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language