caolach

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish cáelach.[2] By surface analysis, caol (“slender”) +‎ -ach.

Noun

caolach m (genitive singular caolaigh)

  1. (collective) wickers, twigs, saplings
  2. wickerwork
  3. wattle (construction of branches and twigs), wattlework

Declension

Declension of caolach (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative caolach
vocative a chaolaigh
genitive caolaigh
dative caolach
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an caolach
genitive an chaolaigh
dative leis an gcaolach
don chaolach

Mutation

Mutated forms of caolach
radical lenition eclipsis
caolach chaolach gcaolach

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

References

  1. ^ “caolach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáelach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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