bachall

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish, from Latin baculum.

Noun

bachall f or m (genitive singular bachaille, nominative plural bachalla)

  1. crook (shepherd's staff)
    Synonyms: caimín, camóg, crúca
  2. (Christianity) crozier
  3. ringlet (of hair)
    Synonyms: búcla, caschiabh, drol, fáinne, fáinneog, iodh, lúibín
  4. (of spade) tramp
  5. hooked nose

Declension
Declension of bachall

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bachall bachalla
Vocative a bhachall a bhachalla
Genitive bachaille bachall
Dative bachall bachalla

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bhachall na bachalla
Genitive na bachaille na mbachall
Dative leis an mbachall

don bhachall

 leis na bachalla

Derived terms
  • bachaillín m (diminutive)
  • bachallach (“crooked, hooked; curled, ringleted; circinate”, adjective)
  • go barra bachall (“in abundance”)

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

Further reading
  • "bachall" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “bachall” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Entries containing “bachall” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “bachall” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin baculum.

Noun

bachall f

  1. staff
    Synonyms: crann, maide, slat, stáinse, trostán
  2. shepherd's crook
    Synonyms: cammán, cammóc, stáinse
  3. (Christianity) crosier
  4. (Christianity, figuratively) holy orders, ordination, calling, pilgrimage
  5. hurley-stick
    Synonym: cammán
  6. (late) curl, tress
    Synonyms: corn, fáinne, gibne, id

Inflection
Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Derived terms

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
bachall bachall
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/		 mbachall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • “bachall” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms
  • bachull

Etymology

From Old Irish, from Latin baculum.

Noun

bachall m (genitive singular bachaill)

  1. shepherd's crook
  2. staff
  3. (Christianity) crozier
  4. old shoe or slipper
  5. rim of a cart
  6. tennis-racket
  7. dolt

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
bachallbhachall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “bachall” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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