ceol

See also: ceól and ceòl

Irish

FWOTD – 19 August 2016

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish ceól, from Old Irish céul.[2]

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /coːl̪ˠ/[3]
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /coːlˠ/, /coːl̪ˠ/[4]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /cɔːlˠ/, /cɔːl̪ˠ/[5]
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

ceol m (genitive singular ceoil, nominative plural ceolta)

  1. music
  2. song

Declension

Declension of ceol (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative ceol ceolta
vocative a cheoil a cheolta
genitive ceoil ceolta
dative ceol ceolta
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an ceol na ceolta
genitive an cheoil na gceolta
dative leis an gceol
don cheol
leis na ceolta

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of ceol
radical lenition eclipsis
ceol cheol gceol

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

References

  1. ^ ceol”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ceól”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 44, page 23
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 175
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 418, page 136

Further reading

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *keulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gawl- (ball, swelling). Displaced by Middle English kele, possibly from or related to Middle Dutch kiel (keel) cognate with Old Norse kjǫlr, from Proto-Germanic *keluz, a related root. Cognate with Old Saxon kiol (boat), Old High German kiol (boat), Old Norse kjóll (ship).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃe͜oːl/

Noun

ċēol m

  1. ship (specifically a small flat-bottomed boat)
  2. keel of a ship

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Derived terms

Descendants