cábla

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cábla, from Middle English cable, from Old Northern French cable,[1] from Late Latin capulum, from the root of capiō.

Pronunciation

Noun

cábla m (genitive singular cábla, nominative plural cáblaí)

  1. cable

Declension

Declension of cábla (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cábla cáblaí
vocative a chábla a cháblaí
genitive cábla cáblaí
dative cábla cáblaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cábla na cáblaí
genitive an chábla na gcáblaí
dative leis an gcábla
don chábla 		leis na cáblaí

Derived terms

  • cáblaigh (“cable”, verb)
  • carr cábla m (“cable car”)
  • teilifís chábla f (“cable television”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cábla
radical lenition eclipsis
cábla chábla gcábla

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cábla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Breatnach, Risteard B. (1947) The Irish of Ring, Co. Waterford: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 471, page 126
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 148
  4. ^ “cábla”, in Irish Pronunciation Database, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

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