caile

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish caile (“serving-girl, maid”).

Noun

caile m or f (genitive singular caile, nominative plural cailí)

  1. girl, wench

Declension
Declension of caile

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative caile cailí
Vocative a chaile a chailí
Genitive caile cailí
Dative caile cailí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an caile na cailí
Genitive an chaile na gcailí
Dative leis an gcaile

don chaile

 leis na cailí
Declension of caile

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative caile cailí
Vocative a chaile a chailí
Genitive caile cailí
Dative caile cailí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an chaile na cailí
Genitive na caile na gcailí
Dative leis an gcaile

don chaile

 leis na cailí

Derived terms
  • caile daibhche (“washerwoman”)
  • cailín (“girl; young unmarried woman; maid”)

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

References
  • "caile" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “1 caile” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Old Irish

Etymology

Noun

caile ?

  1. serving-girl, maid

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

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

References
  • “1 caile” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish caile (“serving-girl, maid”).

Noun

caile f (genitive singular caile, plural cailean)

  1. vulgar girl, quean, hussy
  2. strumpet
  3. (Argyll, Perthshire) any young girl
  4. maidservant who does more or less other work than housework
Synonyms
  • (maidservant who does more or less other work than housework): caile-shearbhanta
Derived terms
  • caile-bhalach f (“romp, tomboy”)
  • caile-circein f (“shuttlecock”)

Etymology 2

Noun

caile f

  1. capacity

References
  • 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
  • “1 caile” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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