caisleán

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish caislén, from Old Irish caisel (from Anglo-Norman castel, from Latin castellum).[1] By surface analysis, caiseal +‎ -án.

Pronunciation

Noun

caisleán m (genitive singular caisleáin, nominative plural caisleáin)

  1. castle (fortified building)
  2. mansion
  3. (meteorology, of cloud) cumulus

Declension

Declension of caisleán (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative caisleán caisleáin
vocative a chaisleáin a chaisleána
genitive caisleáin caisleán
dative caisleán caisleáin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an caisleán na caisleáin
genitive an chaisleáin na gcaisleán
dative leis an gcaisleán
don chaisleán 		leis na caisleáin

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of caisleán
radical lenition eclipsis
caisleán chaisleán gcaisleán

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “caislén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 153, page 78
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 226, page 83

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