caoireoil

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From caora +‎ feoil.

Noun

caoireoil f (genitive singular caoireola)

  1. mutton

Declension

Declension of caoireoil (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative caoireoil
vocative a chaoireoil
genitive caoireola
dative caoireoil
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an chaoireoil
genitive na caoireola
dative leis an gcaoireoil
don chaoireoil

Mutation

Mutated forms of caoireoil
radical lenition eclipsis
caoireoil chaoireoil gcaoireoil

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

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