cailech

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kalyākos, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“call”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkalʲex/

Noun

cailech m (genitive cailig, nominative plural cailig)

rooster

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	cailech	cailech^L	cailig^L
vocative	cailig	cailech^L	cailechu^H
accusative	cailech^N	cailech^L	cailechu^H
genitive	cailig^L	cailech	cailech^N
dative	cailech^L	cailechaib	cailechaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Irish: coileach
Manx: kellagh
Scottish Gaelic: coileach

Mutation

Mutation of *cailech*
radical	lenition	nasalization
cailech	chailech	cailech pronounced with /ɡ-/

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

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 cailech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language