caiseal
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish caisel, from Latin castellum. Doublet of caistéal.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
caiseal m (genitive singular caisil, nominative plural caisil)
- (ancient) stone fort
- unmortared stone wall
- boundary wall (of church, cemetery)
- ‘clamp’, built-up sods, on stack of turf
- (chess) rook, castle
- (architecture, of column) cincture
- spinning top
Declension edit
Declension of caiseal
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms edit
- An Caiseal
- Caiseal
- caiseal tosaigh (“forecastle”)
- caiseal uchta (“breastwork”)
- caisealach (“castellated”, adjective)
- caisealta (“walled, fortified”, adjective)
- caisleán (“castle; mansion; cumulus”)
- caisligh (“castle”, transitive verb)
Descendants edit
- → English: cashel
See also edit
| Chess pieces in Irish · fir fichille (layout · text) | |||||
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| rí | banríon | caiseal | easpag | ridire | ceithearnach, fichillín |
Mutation edit
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| caiseal | chaiseal | gcaiseal |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “caiseal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “caisel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language