cill

English

Noun

cill (plural cills)

  1. Alternative form of sill (“underwater horizontal member which forms the base of a lock gate on a canal or river”)

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cell, from Latin cella.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ciːlʲ/

Noun

cill f (genitive singular cille, nominative plural cealla)

  1. (historical) church
  2. churchyard
  3. (Christianity, biology, electricity) cell

Declension
Declension of cill

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cill cealla
Vocative a chill a chealla
Genitive cille ceall
Dative cill cealla

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an chill na cealla
Genitive na cille na gceall
Dative leis an gcill

don chill

 leis na cealla

Derived terms

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

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cell, from Latin cella.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kʲiːʎ]

Noun

cill f (genitive singular cille, plural cilltean)

  1. cell
  2. chapel
  3. churchyard
  4. burial ground

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

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