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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish céile (“servant, bondsman, vassal, subject; liege, vassal; fellow, companion; husband, wife”), from Primitive Irish ᚉᚓᚂᚔ (celi, “follower, devotee (genitive)”), from Proto-Celtic *keiliyos.
Pronunciation
Noun
cèile m or f (genitive singular cèile, plural cèilean)
- spouse, husband, wife
- Chan eil cèile agam. ― I don't have a husband/wife/spouse.
- counterpart, fellow; equal, match
- other
- An dèidh sin, phòg iad a chèile. ― After that they kissed each other.
- Bha iad a' bruidhinn ri chèile. ― They were speaking with each other.
- Tha na taighean caob math bho chèile. ― The houses are a good bit apart .
- servant
Derived terms
Adverb
cèile
- Alternative form of a chèile
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| cèile |
chèile
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “cèile”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “céile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language