cill

English

Noun

cill (plural cills)

  1. Alternative form of sill (“a threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against”).

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish cell, from Latin cella.

Pronunciation

Noun

cill f (genitive singular cille, nominative plural cealla)

  1. (obsolete) church
  2. churchyard
  3. (Christianity, biology, electricity) cell

Declension

Declension of cill (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cill cealla
vocative a chill a chealla
genitive cille ceall
dative cill cealla
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an chill na cealla
genitive na cille na gceall
dative leis an gcill
don chill 		leis na cealla

Derived terms

  • aerchill f (“air cell”)
  • aoncheallach (“unicellular, single celled”)
  • Cill Airne (“Killarney”)
  • Cill Ala (“Killala”)
  • Cill Chainnigh (“Kilkenny”)
  • cill chriathrach (“sieve cell”)
  • Cill Dalua (“Killaloe”)
  • Cill Dara (“Kildare”)
  • Cill Droichid (“Celbridge”)
  • Cill Fionnúrach (“Kilfenora”)
  • Cill Mhantáin (“Wicklow”)
  • Cill Mhic Duach (“Kilmacduagh”)
  • Cill Mhór (“Kilmore”)
  • cill shómach (“somatic cell”)
  • cill thirim (“dry cell”)
  • cilldeighilt f (“cell division”)
  • cillín m (“cell; hoard, nest-egg”)
  • cillscannán m (“cell membrane”)
  • cillsú m (“cell sap”)
  • cloch-chill (“stone cell”)
  • cónchill (“cone”)
  • eachtarcheallach (“extracellular”)
  • fótaichill (“photocell”)
  • taisc-chill (“storage cell”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cill
radical lenition eclipsis
cill chill gcill

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cell, from Latin cella.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /cʰiːʎ/

Noun

cill f (genitive singular cille, plural cilltean)

  1. cell
  2. chapel
  3. churchyard
  4. burial ground

Mutation

Mutation of cill
radical lenition
cill chill

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

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cill”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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