ciorcal

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish circul (compare Manx kiarkyl, Scottish Gaelic cearcall), from Latin circulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈciɾˠkəlˠ/

Noun

ciorcal m (genitive singular ciorcail, nominative plural ciorcail)

1. circle

Declension

Declension of ciorcal (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ciorcal ciorcail vocative a chiorcail a chiorcala genitive ciorcail ciorcal dative ciorcal ciorcail forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an ciorcal na ciorcail genitive an chiorcail na gciorcal dative leis an gciorcal don chiorcal leis na ciorcail

Derived terms

• An Ciorcal Artach (“the Arctic Circle”)
• ciorcal lochtach (“vicious circle”)
• ciorcal na naoi bpointe (“nine-point circle”)
• ciorclach (“circular; cyclical”, adjective)
• ciorclaigh (“encircle”, verb)
• mórchiorcal (“great circle”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of ciorcal

radical	lenition	eclipsis
ciorcal	chiorcal	gciorcal

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