cuaille

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Irish

Etymology

Cognate with Welsh cofl.^[1] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

cuaille m (genitive singular cuaille, nominative plural cuaillí)

pole; stake, post
(heraldry) pale
tall, thin person; lank, lazy person

Declension

Declension of cuaille (fourth declension)

bare forms
case	singular	plural
nominative	cuaille	cuaillí
vocative	a chuaille	a chuaillí
genitive	cuaille	cuaillí
dative	cuaille	cuaillí

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an cuaille	na cuaillí
genitive	an chuaille	na gcuaillí
dative	leis an gcuaille don chuaille	leis na cuaillí

Synonyms

(tall, thin person): coinnleoir m, léanscach m, pícealach m, sciúirse m, sínéalach m, spiacán m, spíce (de dhuine) m, spícéad m, spídéalach m, sreangaire m, sreangán m

Derived terms

cleas an chuaille (“somersault”) (using pole, stick)
cuaille báire (“goal-post”)
cuaille comhraic (“challenge pole”)
cuaille críche, cuaille teorann (“boundary post”)
cuaille eolais (“signpost”)
cuaille feistithe (“mooring-post”)
cuaille geata (“gate post”)
cuaille lampa (“lamp-post”)
cuaille teileagraif (“telegraph pole”)
cuaille tosaithe (“starting-post”)
cuaille treo (“direction post”)
cuaille treorach (“alignment picket”)
cuailleach (“impaled”, adjective)
cuailligh (“stud”, transitive verb)
fál cuaillí (“picket-fence, stake fence”)
lampa cuaille (“standard lamp”)
léim chuaille (“pole vault”)
sá cuaillí (“pole-planting”)
sáiteoir cuaillí (“pole-sinker”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *cuaille*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
cuaille	chuaille	gcuaille

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

References

^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cofl”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuaille”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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