coinnleoir

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish caindlóir (“candle bearer, acolyte”), from Latin candelārius.[1] By surface analysis, coinneal (“candle”) +‎ -óir.

Pronunciation

Noun

coinnleoir m (genitive singular coinnleora, nominative plural coinnleoirí)

  1. (literary) candle-bearer
  2. candlestick
  3. (figuratively) beanpole (tall, thin person)

Declension

Declension of coinnleoir (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative coinnleoir coinnleoirí
vocative a choinnleoir a choinnleoirí
genitive coinnleora coinnleoirí
dative coinnleoir coinnleoirí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an coinnleoir na coinnleoirí
genitive an choinnleora na gcoinnleoirí
dative leis an gcoinnleoir
don choinnleoir 		leis na coinnleoirí

Synonyms

  • (tall, thin person): cuaille m, léanscach m, pícealach m, sciúirse m, sínéalach m, spiacán m, spíce (de dhuine) m, spícéad m, spídéalach m, sreangaire m, sreangán m

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of coinnleoir
radical lenition eclipsis
coinnleoir choinnleoir gcoinnleoir

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “caindleóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 91

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