cábla

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cábla, from Middle English cable.

Noun

cábla m (genitive singular cábla, nominative plural cáblaí)

1. cable

Declension

Declension of cábla

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative cábla cáblaí Vocative a chábla a cháblaí Genitive cábla cáblaí Dative cábla cáblaí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an cábla na cáblaí Genitive an chábla na gcáblaí Dative leis an gcábla don chábla leis na cáblaí

Derived terms

• cáblaigh (“cable”, verb)
• carr cábla m (“cable car”)
• teilifís chábla f (“cable television”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cábla	chábla	gcábla
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cábla”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cábla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language