gearrchaile

Irish

Etymology

From gearr (“young”) +‎ caile (“girl”).

Noun

gearrchaile m (genitive singular gearrchaile, nominative plural gearrchailí)

1. young girl, lass

Declension

Declension of gearrchaile (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative gearrchaile gearrchailí vocative a ghearrchaile a ghearrchailí genitive gearrchaile gearrchailí dative gearrchaile gearrchailí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an gearrchaile na gearrchailí genitive an ghearrchaile na ngearrchailí dative leis an ngearrchaile don ghearrchaile leis na gearrchailí

Mutation

Mutated forms of gearrchaile

radical	lenition	eclipsis
gearrchaile	ghearrchaile	ngearrchaile

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