caoile

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish caíle, from Old Irish coíle.[3] By surface analysis, caol +‎ -e.

Noun

caoile f (genitive singular caoile)

  1. thinness, slenderness
  2. (phonology, phonetics) palatalized quality
Declension
Declension of caoile (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative caoile
vocative a chaoile
genitive caoile
dative caoile
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an chaoile
genitive na caoile
dative leis an gcaoile
don chaoile

Further reading

  • “caoile”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “caoile”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 114
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caoile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

caoile

  1. inflection of caol:
    1. feminine genitive singular
    2. comparative degree

Mutation

Mutated forms of caoile
radical lenition eclipsis
caoile chaoile gcaoile

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 71
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 48
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “caíle”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰɯːlə/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish caíle, from Old Irish coíle.[1] By surface analysis, caol +‎ -e.

Noun

caoile f (genitive singular caoile, no plural)

  1. thinness, slenderness

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

caoile

  1. inflection of caol:
    1. feminine genitive singular
    2. comparative degree

Mutation

Mutation of caoile
radical lenition
caoile chaoile

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

References

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