cainéal
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English canel, from Old French canele, from Medieval Latin canella, a diminutive of canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na).
Noun
[edit]cainéal m (genitive singular cainéil)
Declension
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Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English canel (variant of chanel), from Anglo-Norman canel, from Old French chanel, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”) (see Etymology 1 above). Doublet of canáil.
Noun
[edit]cainéal m (genitive singular cainéil, nominative plural cainéil)
- channel (for water)
- (broadcasting) channel (on television etc.)
- Synonym: bealach
Declension
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Mutation
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cainéal | chainéal | gcainéal |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- “cainéal”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cainél “cinnamon””, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cainnéal “channel””, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 106
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cainéal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Categories:
- Irish terms borrowed from Middle English
- Irish terms derived from Middle English
- Irish terms derived from Old French
- Irish terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Irish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Irish terms derived from Akkadian
- Irish terms derived from Sumerian
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish first-declension nouns
- Irish terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- Irish terms derived from Latin
- Irish doublets
- ga:Broadcasting
- ga:Bodies of water