ciorcal
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish circul (compare Manx kiarkyl, Scottish Gaelic cearcall), from Latin circulus.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editciorcal m (genitive singular ciorcail, nominative plural ciorcail)
Declension
editDeclension of ciorcal
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
edit- 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
editIrish mutation | ||
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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
edit- 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