cairéal

Irish

Alternative forms

• coiléar

Etymology

From Middle Irish cairél (“quarry”), apparently based on English quarry.

Noun

cairéal m (genitive singular cairéil, nominative plural cairéil)

1. (mining) quarry

Declension

Declension of cairéal (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cairéal cairéil vocative a chairéil a chairéala genitive cairéil cairéal dative cairéal cairéil forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cairéal na cairéil genitive an chairéil na gcairéal dative leis an gcairéal don chairéal leis na cairéil

Derived terms

• cairéalacht f (“(act of) quarrying”)
• cairéalaí m (“quarryman”)
• cairéalaigh (“quarry”, verb)
• cloch chairéil f (“quarry-stone”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cairéal

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cairéal	chairéal	gcairéal

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