cuailleach

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Irish

Etymology

From cuaille (“pale”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

cuailleach (genitive singular masculine cuailligh, genitive singular feminine cuaillí, plural cuailleacha, not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) impaled

Declension

Declension of cuailleach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative cuailleach chuailleach cuailleacha;
chuailleacha2
vocative chuailligh cuailleacha
genitive cuaillí cuailleacha cuailleach
dative cuailleach;
chuailleach1 		chuailleach;
chuailligh (archaic) 		cuailleacha;
chuailleacha2
Comparative níos cuaillí
Superlative is cuaillí

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuailleach
radical lenition eclipsis
cuailleach chuailleach gcuailleach

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

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