cuailleach

Irish

Etymology

From cuaille (“pale”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

cuailleach (genitive singular masculine cuailligh, genitive singular feminine cuaillí, plural cuailleacha, not comparable)

1. (heraldry) impaled

Declension

Declension of cuailleach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	cuailleach	chuailleach	cuailleacha; chuailleacha2
vocative	chuailligh		cuailleacha
genitive		cuaillí	cuailleacha	cuailleach
dative	cuailleach; chuailleach1	chuailleach; chuailligh (archaic)	cuailleacha; chuailleacha2
Comparative	níos cuaillí
Superlative	is cuaillí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuailleach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cuailleach	chuailleach	gcuailleach

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