cuaille

Irish

Etymology

Noun

cuaille m (genitive singular cuaille, nominative plural cuaillí)

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

Declension

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)
  • cuailleach (impaled, adjective)
  • 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)
  • 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.

Further reading

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