cáel
Middle Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish coíl, from Proto-Celtic *koilos (“thin”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *koyHlo- (Latvian kails (“bare, naked”)).[1] Compare Cornish and Welsh cul.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cáel (equative caílithir)
Inflection
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Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Noun
[edit]cáel m
Inflection
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Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| cáel | cháel | cáel pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “koylo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 220
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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