ciorcal
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish circul (compare Manx kiarkyl, Scottish Gaelic cearcall), from Latin circulus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈciɾˠkəlˠ/
Declension
Declension of ciorcal
First declension
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- An Ciorcal Artach (“the Arctic Circle”)
- ciorcal lochtach (“vicious circle”)
- ciorcal na naoi bpointe (“nine-point circle”)
- ciorclach (“circular; cyclical”, adjective)
- ciorclaigh (“encircle”, verb)
- mórchiorcal (“great circle”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| ciorcal | chiorcal | gciorcal |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ciorcal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “circul”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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