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From ceirtle + -ín.
ceirtlín m (genitive singular ceirtlín, nominative plural ceirtlíní or ceirtlíneacha)
- ball (quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape), clew
- anything roughly ball-shaped
Rinne an ghráinneog ceirtlín di féin.- The hedgehog curled up into a ball.
- heap, lump
- well-set, well-built or beefy person
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ “ceirtlín”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 232, page 117
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 227, page 84
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ceirtlín”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ceirtlín”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 133
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ceirtlín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN