gual

See also: gúal

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vadum, with influence of Germanic, compare Italian guado (“ford”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡwal]

Noun

gual m (plural guals)

1. ford (a location where a stream is shallow)
2. dip (a lower section of a road)

Further reading

• “gual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gual”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “gual” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gual” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish gúal (“charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Celtic *goulos, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”), though the details are unclear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡuəl̪ˠ/, /ɡuəlˠ/

Noun

gual m (genitive singular guail)

1. coal

Declension

Declension of gual (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative gual vocative a ghuail genitive guail dative gual forms with the definite article case singular nominative an gual genitive an ghuail dative leis an ngual don ghual

Derived terms

• bád guail (“collier”)
• clochghual (“anthracite, hard coal”)
• féan guail (“corf”)
• fioghual (“charcoal”)
• gual donn (“brown coal, lignite”)
• gual glan (“clean coal”)
• gualach (“charcoal”)
• gualcha (“coal mine, colliery”)
• gualmhianach (“coal mine”)
• meall guail (“coal ball”)
• mianach guail (“coal mine, colliery”)
• mianadóir guail m (“coal-miner”)
• mianadóireacht guail f (“coal-mining”)
• pota guail (“collier”)
• síog ghuail (“coal seam”)
• soitheach guail (“collier”)
• tarra guail (“coal tar”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of gual

radical	lenition	eclipsis
gual	ghual	ngual

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish gúal (“charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Celtic *goulos, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”), though the details are unclear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuəl̪ˠ/
• (Lewis) IPA^(key): [kʊɔ̝̈l̪ˠ]

Noun

gual m (genitive singular guail, no plural)

1. coal

Derived terms

• gualan
• mèinn-ghuail

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “gual”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gúal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language