caiseal

See also: Caiseal

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish caisel, from Latin castellum. Doublet of caistéal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʃəl̪ˠ/, /ˈkaʃəlˠ/

Noun

caiseal m (genitive singular caisil, nominative plural caisil)

1. (ancient) stone fort
2. unmortared stone wall
3. boundary wall (of church, cemetery)
4. ‘clamp’, built-up sods, on stack of turf
5. (chess) rook, castle
6. (architecture, of column) cincture
7. spinning top

Declension

Declension of caiseal (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative caiseal caisil vocative a chaisil a chaiseala genitive caisil caiseal dative caiseal caisil forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an caiseal na caisil genitive an chaisil na gcaiseal dative leis an gcaiseal don chaiseal leis na caisil

Derived terms

• an Caiseal (“Cashel, County Mayo or County Galway”)
• Caiseal (“Cashel, County Tipperary”)
• caiseal tosaigh (“forecastle”)
• caiseal uchta (“breastwork”)
• caisealach (“castellated”, adjective)
• caisealta (“walled, fortified”, adjective)
• caisleán (“castle; mansion; cumulus”)
• caisligh (“castle”, transitive verb)

Descendants

• → English: cashel

Mutation

Mutated forms of caiseal

radical	lenition	eclipsis
caiseal	chaiseal	gcaiseal

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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