cairéal

Irish

Alternative forms

• coiléar

Etymology

From Middle Irish cairél (“quarry”), apparently based on English quarry.

Noun

cairéal m (genitive singular cairéil, nominative plural cairéil)

1. (mining) quarry

Declension

Declension of cairéal

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative cairéal cairéil Vocative a chairéil a chairéala Genitive cairéil cairéal Dative cairéal cairéil

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an cairéal na cairéil Genitive an chairéil na gcairéal Dative leis an gcairéal don chairéal leis na cairéil

Derived terms

• cairéalacht f (“(act of) quarrying”)
• cairéalaí m (“quarryman”)
• cairéalaigh (“quarry”, verb)
• cloch chairéil f (“quarry-stone”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cairéal	chairéal	gcairéal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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