snagcheol

Irish

Etymology

From snag (“catch, hiccup; syncopation”) +‎ ceol (“music”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsˠn̪aɡˌçoːlˠ/

Noun

snagcheol m (genitive singular snagcheoil)

1. syncopated music; jazz

Declension

Declension of snagcheol (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative snagcheol vocative a shnagcheoil genitive snagcheoil dative snagcheol forms with the definite article case singular nominative an snagcheol genitive an tsnagcheoil dative leis an snagcheol don snagcheol

Derived terms

• snagcheol aigéid (“acid jazz”)

Related terms

• snagbhanna m (“jazz band”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of snagcheol

radical	lenition	eclipsis
snagcheol	shnagcheol after an, tsnagcheol	not applicable

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