cuisle

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cuisle (“pipe, tube”), from Old Irish cusle,[1] of obscure origin. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).[2] Not related to Latin pulsus.

Pronunciation

Noun

cuisle f (genitive singular cuisle or cuisleann, nominative plural cuislí or cuisleanna or cuisleacha)

  1. pulse (regular beat felt when the arteries are depressed)
  2. (chiefly figuratively) vein, blood vessel
  3. forearm, wrist
  4. (figuratively) channel
  5. (geology) seam
  6. (music) flute
  7. (architecture) flute (groove in a column)

Declension

Declension of cuisle (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cuisle cuislí
vocative a chuisle a chuislí
genitive cuisle cuislí
dative cuisle cuislí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an chuisle na cuislí
genitive na cuisle na gcuislí
dative leis an gcuisle
don chuisle 		leis na cuislí
  • Alternative plural form: cuisleacha
  • Archaic fifth-declension forms:
Declension of cuisle (fifth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cuisle cuisleanna
vocative a chuisle a chuisleanna
genitive cuisleann cuisleann
dative cuislinn cuisleanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an chuisle na cuisleanna
genitive na cuisleann na gcuisleann
dative leis an gcuislinn
don chuislinn 		leis na cuisleanna

Synonyms

  • (vein): féith (used of literal veins)
  • (blood vessel): fuileadán (used of literal blood vessels)
  • (forearm): rí
  • (channel): géag, góilín
  • (musical instrument): fliúit, feadóg mhór

Derived terms

  • cuisleach (“veined”, adjective)
  • cuisligh (“flow; flute; pipe”, verb)

Descendants

  • →⇒ English: acushla (from vocative a chuisle)
  • →⇒ English: macushla (from mo chuisle (literally “my pulse”))

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuisle
radical lenition eclipsis
cuisle chuisle gcuisle

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), “cuisle”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cuisle”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page cuisle
  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, § 228, page 115
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 153
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 43, page 19

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish cuisle (“pipe, tube”), from Old Irish cusle, of obscure origin. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).[1] Not related to Latin pulsus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰuʃlə/

Noun

cuisle f (plural cuislean)

  1. a vein or artery
  2. pulse
  3. stream
  4. pipe

Mutation

Mutation of cuisle
radical lenition
cuisle chuisle

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

References

  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cuisle”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[2], Stirling, →ISBN, page cuisle
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