Irish
- coirneal, coirneál, cóirneal, cóirneál, cóirnéal, coirneul, coirnéul, cóirneul, cornal, córnal, cornnal (obsolete)[1]
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle English cornel, from Anglo-Norman cornal, a dissimilated variant of cornere.
Noun
coirnéal m (genitive singular coirnéil, nominative plural)
- corner
Declension
Declension of coirnéal (first declension)
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Etymology 2
From English coronel (obsolete form of colonel, from Middle French coronnel, from Old Italian colonnello (“the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment”), from compagna colonnella (“little column company”), from Latin columna (“pillar”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), o-grade form from a Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent”).
Noun
coirnéal m (genitive singular coirnéil, nominative plural)
- colonel
Declension
Declension of coirnéal (first declension)
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Derived terms
Mutation
Mutated forms of coirnéal
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lenition
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eclipsis
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choirnéal
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gcoirnéal
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ “coirnéal”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ “coirnéal”, in Irish Pronunciation Database, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
- ^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht [The Irish of Cois Fharraige: Accidence] (in Irish), 2nd edition, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath [Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], section 24, page 11
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 275, page 97
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