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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ceirtle + -ín.
Pronunciation
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈcaɾˠhl̠ʲinʲ/, /ˈcaɾˠtʲlʲinʲ/, /ˈcɛɾˠhl̠ʲinʲ/ (as if spelled cearthlín/ceairtlín/ceirthlín)
Noun
ceirtlín m (genitive singular ceirtlín, nominative plural ceirtlíní or ceirtlíneacha)
- ball (quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape), clew
- anything roughly ball-shaped
Rinne an ghráinneog ceirtlín di féin.- The hedgehog curled up into a ball.
- heap, lump
- well-set, well-built or beefy person
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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| ceirtlín
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cheirtlín
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gceirtlín
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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
Further reading
- “ceirtlín”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), chapter 8509, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ceirtlín”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 133
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ceirtlín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN