pacáil

Irish

Etymology

paca +‎ -áil

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /pˠaˈkɑːlʲ/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈpˠakɑːlʲ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈpˠakælʲ/

Verb

pacáil (present analytic pacálann, future analytic pacálfaidh, verbal noun pacáil, past participle pacáilte)

  1. to pack (put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport), to box (place inside a box)

Conjugation

Noun

pacáil m (genitive singular pacála)

  1. verbal noun of pacáil
  2. packing, packaging

Declension

Declension of pacáil (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative pacáil
vocative a phacáil
genitive pacála
dative pacáil
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an pacáil
genitive an phacála
dative leis an bpacáil
don phacáil

Mutation

Mutated forms of pacáil
radical lenition eclipsis
pacáil phacáil bpacáil

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

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