coirnéal

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Irish

Alternative forms

coirneal, coirneál, cóirneal, cóirneál, cóirnéal, coirneul, coirnéul, cóirneul, cornal, córnal, cornnal (obsolete)

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle English cornel, from Anglo-Norman cornal, a dissimilated variant of cornere.

Noun

coirnéal m (genitive singular coirnéil, nominative plural)

  1. corner
Declension
Declension of coirnéal (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative coirnéal coirnéil
vocative a choirnéil a choirnéala
genitive coirnéil coirnéal
dative coirnéal coirnéil
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an coirnéal na coirnéil
genitive an choirnéil na gcoirnéal
dative leis an gcoirnéal
don choirnéal 		leis na coirnéil

Etymology 2

From English coronel (obsolete form of colonel, from Middle French coronnel, from Old Italian colonnello (“the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment”), from compagna colonnella (“little column company”), from Latin columna (“pillar”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), o-grade form from a Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent”).

Noun

coirnéal m (genitive singular coirnéil, nominative plural)

  1. colonel
Declension
Declension of coirnéal (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative coirnéal coirnéil
vocative a choirnéil a choirnéala
genitive coirnéil coirnéal
dative coirnéal coirnéil
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an coirnéal na coirnéil
genitive an choirnéil na gcoirnéal
dative leis an gcoirnéal
don choirnéal 		leis na coirnéil
Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of coirnéal
radical lenition eclipsis
coirnéal choirnéal gcoirnéal

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 97

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