a chéile

From Old Irish a chéile. Literally, “his companion”.

• IPA^(key): /əˈçeːlʲə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /aˈçɛlʲə/^[1]

a chéile

1. each other, one another

After a preposition ending in a vowel, the preposition and the a may contract in the usual way for a (“his”), or the a may be deleted (though its lenition effect on chéile remains):

• lena chéile or le chéile (“with each other”)
• óna chéile or ó chéile (“from each other”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “céile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• a chéele

Literally, “his companion”.

• IPA^(key): [aˈxʲeːlʲe]

a chéile

1. each other, one another

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6^d4

  Íroimed cách a chéele per caritatem .i. do maith friss

  Let every one receive each other by love, i.e. for good unto him.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “céile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language