cispheil

See also: cicpheil

Irish

Etymology

From cis (“basket”) +‎ peil (“football”).

Noun

cispheil f (genitive singular cispheile)

1. basketball (game; physical ball)

Declension

Declension of cispheil

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun) Case Singular Nominative cispheil Vocative a chispheil Genitive cispheile Dative cispheil

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an chispheil Genitive na cispheile Dative leis an gcispheil don chispheil

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cispheil	chispheil	gcispheil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cispheil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cispheil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cispheil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024