culaith

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cula(i)d (“equipment, gear; attire, suit”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kl̪ˠɪh/, /kl̪ˠɞh/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔl̪ˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlˠi/

Noun

culaith f (genitive singular culaithe, nominative plural cultacha)

1. suit (of clothes), dress, apparel
2. gear, equipment

Declension

Declension of culaith (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative culaith cultacha vocative a chulaith a chultacha genitive culaithe cultacha dative culaith cultacha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an chulaith na cultacha genitive na culaithe na gcultacha dative leis an gculaith don chulaith leis na cultacha

Derived terms

• culaith ghnó
• culaith oíche

 

Related terms

• culaithirt f (“dress; gear, trapping”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of culaith

radical	lenition	eclipsis
culaith	chulaith	gculaith

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

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “culaith”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “culaith”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “culaith”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cula(i)d”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language