ciorcal

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish circul (compare Manx kiarkyl, Scottish Gaelic cearcall), from Latin circulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈciɾˠkəlˠ/

Noun

ciorcal m (genitive singular ciorcail, nominative plural ciorcail)

1. circle

Declension

Declension of ciorcal

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative ciorcal ciorcail Vocative a chiorcail a chiorcala Genitive ciorcail ciorcal Dative ciorcal ciorcail

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an ciorcal na ciorcail Genitive an chiorcail na gciorcal Dative leis an gciorcal don chiorcal leis na ciorcail

Derived terms

• An Ciorcal Artach (“the Arctic Circle”)
• ciorcal lochtach (“vicious circle”)
• ciorcal na naoi bpointe (“nine-point circle”)
• ciorclach (“circular; cyclical”, adjective)
• ciorclaigh (“encircle”, verb)
• mórchiorcal (“great circle”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
ciorcal	chiorcal	gciorcal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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