cuaille
Irish
Noun
cuaille m (genitive singular cuaille, nominative plural cuaillí)
Declension
Declension of cuaille
Fourth declension
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Synonyms
- (tall, thin person): coinnleoir m, léanscach m, pícealach m, sciúirse m, sínéalach m, spiacán m, spíce (de dhuine) m, spícéad m, spídéalach m, sreangaire m, sreangán m
Derived terms
- cleas an chuaille (“somersault”) (using pole, stick)
- cuailleach (“impaled”, adjective)
- cuaille báire (“goal-post”)
- cuaille comhraic (“challenge pole”)
- cuaille críche, cuaille teorann (“boundary post”)
- cuaille eolais (“signpost”)
- cuaille feistithe (“mooring-post”)
- cuaille geata (“gate post”)
- cuaille lampa (“lamp-post”)
- cuaille teileagraif (“telegraph pole”)
- cuaille tosaithe (“starting-post”)
- cuaille treo (“direction post”)
- cuaille treorach (“alignment picket”)
- cuailligh (“stud”, transitive verb)
- fál cuaillí (“picket-fence, stake fence”)
- lampa cuaille (“standard lamp”)
- léim chuaille (“pole vault”)
- sá cuaillí (“pole-planting”)
- sáiteoir cuaillí (“pole-sinker”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cuaille | chuaille | gcuaille |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- "cuaille" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
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