cíall

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *kʷeislā; cognate to Welsh pwyll.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cíall f (genitive céille, nominative plural cíalla)

  1. sense, intelligence, mind (of persons)
  2. wisdom, good sense, skill
  3. sense (means of perception)
  4. intention, cause, reason, idea
  5. signification, meaning (of words, texts, etc.)
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 38c3
      Ní hé apstal cita·rogab in testimin so. Aliter: Ní fóu da·uc int apstal fon chéill fuand·rogab in fáith.
      It is not (the) apostle who first uttered this text. Otherwise: The apostle did not apply it in the sense in which the prophet uttered it.
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 56b31
      Cía techtid nach aile ní ad·chobrai-siu ⁊ ní techtai-siu ón immurgu, ní étaigther-su immanísin, .i. ní ascnae ⁊ ní charae; is sí indala ch[í]all les isindí as emulari in sin.
      Though another may possess what you may desire and you may however not possess, you should not be jealous of that thing, i.e. you should not seek after and love it; that is one of the two meanings that he finds in emulari.
  6. force, function, meaning (of grammatical forms)

Inflection

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Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative cíallL céillL cíallaH
Vocative cíallL céillL cíallaH
Accusative céillN céillL cíallaH
Genitive céilleH cíallL cíallN
Dative céillL cíallaib cíallaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: ciall
  • Manx: keeall
  • Scottish Gaelic: ciall

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
cíall chíall cíall
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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