caolach

Irish

Alternative forms

• caolbhach

Etymology

From Middle Irish cáelach. By surface analysis, caol (“slender”) +‎ -ach.

Noun

caolach m (genitive singular caolaigh)

1. (collective) wickers, twigs, saplings
2. wickerwork
3. wattle (construction of branches and twigs), wattlework

Declension

Declension of caolach (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative caolach vocative a chaolaigh genitive caolaigh dative caolach forms with the definite article case singular nominative an caolach genitive an chaolaigh dative leis an gcaolach don chaolach

Mutation

Mutated forms of caolach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
caolach	chaolach	gcaolach

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

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “caolaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 115
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caolach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN