coirnéal

Irish

Alternative forms

• coirneal, coirneál, cóirneal, cóirneál, cóirnéal, coirneul, coirnéul, cóirneul, cornal, córnal, cornnal (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /koːɾˠˈnʲeːlˠ/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /ˈkauɾˠn̠ʲeːl̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾˠn̠ʲalˠ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle English cornel, from Anglo-Norman cornal, a dissimilated variant of cornere.

Noun

coirnéal m (genitive singular coirnéil, nominative plural)

1. corner

Declension

Declension of coirnéal (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative coirnéal coirnéil vocative a choirnéil a choirnéala genitive coirnéil coirnéal dative coirnéal coirnéil forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an coirnéal na coirnéil genitive an choirnéil na gcoirnéal dative leis an gcoirnéal don choirnéal leis na coirnéil

Etymology 2

From English coronel (obsolete form of colonel, from Middle French coronnel, from Old Italian colonnello (“the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment”), from compagna colonnella (“little column company”), from Latin columna (“pillar”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), o-grade form from a Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent”).

Noun

coirnéal m (genitive singular coirnéil, nominative plural)

1. colonel

Declension

Declension of coirnéal (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative coirnéal coirnéil vocative a choirnéil a choirnéala genitive coirnéil coirnéal dative coirnéal coirnéil forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an coirnéal na coirnéil genitive an choirnéil na gcoirnéal dative leis an gcoirnéal don choirnéal leis na coirnéil

Derived terms

• coirnéalacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of coirnéal

radical	lenition	eclipsis
coirnéal	choirnéal	gcoirnéal

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) “coirnéal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN