caoireoil

Irish

Alternative forms

• caoirfheoil

Etymology

From caora +‎ feoil.

Noun

caoireoil f (genitive singular caoireola)

1. mutton

Declension

Declension of caoireoil (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative caoireoil vocative a chaoireoil genitive caoireola dative caoireoil forms with the definite article case singular nominative an chaoireoil genitive na caoireola dative leis an gcaoireoil don chaoireoil

Mutation

Mutated forms of caoireoil

radical	lenition	eclipsis
caoireoil	chaoireoil	gcaoireoil

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