keeill

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Manx keeill. Doublet of cell.

Noun

keeill (plural keeills)

1. (chiefly Isle of Man, historical) A small monastic cell or chapel (especially during the pre-modern period).
   • 1958, Annie Ashley, The Church in the Isle of Man, number 13, page 8:

     The division into sheadings and into (early secular) parishes is shown in Plate II with the sites of incised or engraved stones and of those keeills beside which graveyards have been identified.

   • 1966, in the Report of the Manx Archaeological Survey, volume 6, page 61:

     The local place-name 'Chapel Gate' — 'the road to the Chapel' — is of some antiquity (J. J. Kneen, Place-Names, I, p. 22) and applies particularly to the steep pathway down the brooghs to the keeill-site and well at the west end of 'Chapel Bay'.

Anagrams

• Kellie

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish cell, from Latin cella.

Noun

keeill f (genitive singular killey or keeilley or killagh, plural kialteenyn)

1. church
2. place of worship
3. oratory
4. (monastic) cell

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
keeill	cheeill	geeill
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.