caiseal

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish caisel, from Latin castellum.

Noun

caiseal m (genitive singular caisil, nominative plural caisil)

  1. (ancient) stone fort
  2. unmortared stone wall
  3. (of church, cemetery) boundary wall
  4. ‘clamp’, built-up sods, on stack of turf
  5. (chess) rook, castle
  6. (architecture, of column) cincture
  7. spinning top

Declension
Declension of caiseal

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative caiseal caisil
Vocative a chaisil a chaiseala
Genitive caisil caiseal
Dative caiseal caisil

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an caiseal na caisil
Genitive an chaisil na gcaiseal
Dative leis an gcaiseal

don chaiseal

 leis na caisil

Derived terms
  • caisealach (“castellated”, adjective)
  • caisealta (“walled, fortified”, adjective)
  • caiseal tosaigh (“forecastle”)
  • caiseal uchta (“breastwork”)
  • caisleán (“castle; mansion; cumulus”)
  • caisligh (“castle”, transitive verb)

See also
Chess pieces in Irish · fir fichille (layout · text)
rí banríon caiseal easpag ridire ceithearnach, fichillín

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
caiseal chaiseal gcaiseal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • "caiseal" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “caisel” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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