cuaille

Irish

Etymology

Cognate with Welsh cofl.[1] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

cuaille m (genitive singular cuaille, nominative plural cuaillí)

  1. pole; stake, post
  2. (heraldry) pale
  3. tall, thin person; lank, lazy person

Declension
Declension of cuaille

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cuaille cuaillí
Vocative a chuaille a chuaillí
Genitive cuaille cuaillí
Dative cuaille cuaillí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cuaille na cuaillí
Genitive an chuaille na gcuaillí
Dative leis an gcuaille

don chuaille

 leis na cuaillí

Synonyms
  • (tall, thin person): coinnleoir 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
  • cleas an chuaille (“somersault”) (using pole, stick)
  • cuaille báire (“goal-post”)
  • cuaille comhraic (“challenge pole”)
  • cuaille críche, cuaille teorann (“boundary post”)
  • cuaille eolais (“signpost”)
  • cuaille feistithe (“mooring-post”)
  • cuaille geata (“gate post”)
  • cuaille lampa (“lamp-post”)
  • cuaille teileagraif (“telegraph pole”)
  • cuaille tosaithe (“starting-post”)
  • cuaille treo (“direction post”)
  • cuaille treorach (“alignment picket”)
  • cuailleach (“impaled”, adjective)
  • cuailligh (“stud”, transitive verb)
  • fál cuaillí (“picket-fence, stake fence”)
  • lampa cuaille (“standard lamp”)
  • léim chuaille (“pole vault”)
  • sá cuaillí (“pole-planting”)
  • sáiteoir cuaillí (“pole-sinker”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cuaille chuaille gcuaille
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cofl”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Further reading
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