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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)
- castle (fortified building)
- mansion
- (meteorology, of cloud) cumulus
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| caisleán
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chaisleán
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gcaisleán
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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
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “caislén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 153, page 78
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 226, page 83
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