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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish circul (compare Manx kiarkyl, Scottish Gaelic cearcall), from Latin circulus.
Pronunciation
Noun
ciorcal m (genitive singular ciorcail, nominative plural ciorcail)
- circle
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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| ciorcal
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chiorcal
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gciorcal
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ciorcal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “circul”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language