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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish *cáelas, equivalent to caol + -as.
Pronunciation
Noun
caolas m (genitive singular caolais, nominative plural caolais)
- (geography) strait, narrows
- narrow place, bottleneck
Declension
Mutation
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| caolas
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chaolas
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gcaolas
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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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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caolas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáelas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “caolas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “caolas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish *cáelas, equivalent to caol + -as.
Noun
caolas m (genitive singular caolais, plural caolan)
- channel, narrows, kyle
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading