caiseal

See also: Caiseal

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish caisel, from Latin castellum. Doublet of caistéal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaʃəl̪ˠ/, /ˈkaʃəlˠ/

Noun

caiseal m (genitive singular caisil, nominative plural caisil)

  1. (ancient) stone fort
  2. unmortared stone wall
  3. boundary wall (of church, cemetery)
  4. ‘clamp’, built-up sods, on stack of turf
  5. (chess) rook, castle
  6. (architecture, of column) cincture
  7. spinning top

Declension

Declension of caiseal (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative caiseal caisil
vocative a chaisil a chaiseala
genitive caisil caiseal
dative caiseal caisil
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an caiseal na caisil
genitive an chaisil na gcaiseal
dative leis an gcaiseal
don chaiseal 		leis na caisil

Derived terms

  • an Caiseal (“Cashel, County Mayo or County Galway”)
  • Caiseal (“Cashel, County Tipperary”)
  • caiseal tosaigh (“forecastle”)
  • caiseal uchta (“breastwork”)
  • caisealach (“castellated”, adjective)
  • caisealta (“walled, fortified”, adjective)
  • caisleán (“castle; mansion; cumulus”)
  • caisligh (“castle”, transitive verb)

Descendants

  • → English: cashel

See also

Chess pieces in Irish · fir fichille (layout · text)
rí banríon caiseal easpag ridire ceithearnach, fichillín

Mutation

Mutated forms of caiseal
radical lenition eclipsis
caiseal chaiseal gcaiseal

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

References

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