muinchille

Irish

Alternative forms
  • muinchilte, muinille, muinirthle, muinirtle[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish muinchille, from Vulgar Latin *manicella,[2] a diminutive of Latin manica.

Pronunciation
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈmˠɪɾʲhil̠ʲə/[3] (as if spelled muirthílle)

Noun

muinchille f or m (genitive singular muinchille, nominative plural muinchillí)

  1. sleeve
  2. (mechanical engineering) sleeve, sleeving

Declension
Declension of muinchille

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative muinchille muinchillí
Vocative a mhuinchille a mhuinchillí
Genitive muinchille muinchillí
Dative muinchille muinchillí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an mhuinchille na muinchillí
Genitive na muinchille na muinchillí
Dative leis an muinchille

don mhuinchille

 leis na muinchillí
Alternative declension as a masculine
Declension of muinchille

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative muinchille muinchillí
Vocative a mhuinchille a mhuinchillí
Genitive muinchille muinchillí
Dative muinchille muinchillí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an muinchille na muinchillí
Genitive an mhuinchille na muinchillí
Dative leis an muinchille

don mhuinchille

 leis na muinchillí

Derived terms
  • banda muinchille (“wrist-band”)
  • bosca muinchille (“coupling-sleeve”)
  • comhla mhuinchille (“sleeve-valve”)
  • muinchille fearsaide (“axle-sleeve”)
  • muinchille léine (“shirt-sleeve”)
  • suaitheantas muinchille (“arm-badge”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
muinchille mhuinchille not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. “muinchille”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “muinchille”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 102

Further reading
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