coirnéal

Irish

Alternative forms

coirneal, coirneál, cóirneal, cóirneál, cóirnéal, coirneul, coirnéul, cóirneul, cornal, córnal, cornnal (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kəɾˠˈn̠ʲeːlˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾˠn̠ʲeːlˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾˠn̠ʲalˠ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle English cornel, from Anglo-Norman cornal, a dissimilated variant of cornere.

Noun

coirnéal m (genitive singular coirnéil, nominative plural)

1. corner

Declension

Declension of coirnéal

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative coirnéal coirnéil Vocative a choirnéil a choirnéala Genitive coirnéil coirnéal Dative coirnéal coirnéil

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an coirnéal na coirnéil Genitive an choirnéil na gcoirnéal Dative leis an gcoirnéal don choirnéal leis na coirnéil

Etymology 2

From English coronel (obsolete form of colonel, from Middle French coronnel, from Old Italian colonnello (“the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment”), from compagna colonnella (“little column company”), from Latin columna (“pillar”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), o-grade form from a Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent”).

Noun

coirnéal m (genitive singular coirnéil, nominative plural)

1. colonel

Declension

Declension of coirnéal

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative coirnéal coirnéil Vocative a choirnéil a choirnéala Genitive coirnéil coirnéal Dative coirnéal coirnéil

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an coirnéal na coirnéil Genitive an choirnéil na gcoirnéal Dative leis an gcoirnéal don choirnéal leis na coirnéil

Derived terms

• coirnéalacht

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
coirnéal	choirnéal	gcoirnéal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coirnéal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN