cúil

See also: cuil and cùil

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuːlʲ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish cuil, from Proto-Celtic *kūlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-lo-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).

Noun

cúil f (genitive singular cúlach, nominative plural cúlacha)

1. corner, nook
2. heap, store

Declension

Declension of cúil (fifth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cúil cúlacha vocative a chúil a chúlacha genitive cúlach cúlacha dative cúil cúlaigh (archaic, dialectal) cúlacha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an chúil na cúlacha genitive na cúlach na gcúlacha dative leis an gcúil leis an gcúlaigh (archaic, dialectal) don chúil don chúlaigh (archaic, dialectal) leis na cúlacha

Derived terms

• Cúil Raithin (“Coleraine”)

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 55

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

cúil m

1. inflection of cúl:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural
2. Alternative form of cúl

Mutation

Mutated forms of cúil

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cúil	chúil	gcúil

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