coirnéal
Irish
Alternative forms
coirneal, coirneál, cóirneal, cóirneál, cóirnéal, coirneul, coirnéul, cóirneul, cornal, córnal, cornnal (obsolete)
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle English cornel, from Anglo-Norman cornal, a dissimilated variant of cornere.
Declension
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Etymology 2
From English coronel (obsolete form of colonel, from Middle French coronnel, from Old Italian colonnello (“the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment”), from compagna colonnella (“little column company”), from Latin columna (“pillar”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), o-grade form from a Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent”).
Declension
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Derived terms
- coirnéalacht
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| coirnéal | choirnéal | gcoirnéal |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 97
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coirnéal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN