ceàrn

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cern (“angle, corner, recess”).

Noun

ceàrn m (genitive singular ceàrna, plural ceàrnan)

1. (geometry) angle
2. corner (internal)
3. area, district, region

Derived terms

• ceàrn caol (“acute angle”)
• ceàrn ceart (“right angle”)
• ceàrn farsaing (“obtuse angle”)
• ceàrn fosgailte (“reflex angle”)
• ceàrnach (“square”)

 

Mutation

Mutation of ceàrn

radical	lenition
ceàrn	cheàrn

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cern”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language