alcól

See also: alcol and alcòl

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French alcohol, from Arabic اَلْكُحْل (al-kuḥl, “kohl”).

Noun

alcól m (genitive singular alcóil)

1. alcohol, spirit

Declension

Declension of alcól (first declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative alcól vocative a alcóil genitive alcóil dative alcól forms with the definite article singular nominative an t-alcól genitive an alcóil dative leis an alcól don alcól

Derived terms

• alcól adhmaid
• alcól aimile
• alcól cuimilte
• alcól eitile
• alcól lagaithe
• alcól meitile
• alcól prátaí
• alcólach
• cioróis alcóil
• dé-alcól
• deoch alcóil
• lampa alcóil
• mí-úsáid alcóil
• smugláil alcóil
• smuglálaí alcóil
• vearnais alcóil

Mutation

Mutated forms of alcól

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
alcól	n-alcól	halcól	t-alcól

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “alcól”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “alcól”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “alcól”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025