cairling

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse kerling.

Noun

cairling f

1. (obsolete) hag

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cairling”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language