cèile

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See also: céile and -cèile

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish céile (servant, bondsman, vassal, subject; liege, vassal; fellow, companion; husband, wife), from Primitive Irish ᚉᚓᚂᚔ (celi, follower, devotee (genitive)), from Proto-Celtic *keiliyos.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [kʰʲeːlɪ], /kʰʲeːlə/

Noun

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cèile m or f (genitive singular cèile, plural cèilean)

  1. spouse, husband, wife
    Chan eil cèile agam.I don't have a husband/wife/spouse.
  2. counterpart, fellow; equal, match
  3. other
    An dèidh sin, phòg iad a chèile.After that they kissed each other.
    Bha iad a' bruidhinn ri chèile.They were speaking with each other.
    Tha na taighean caob math bho chèile.The houses are a good bit apart [from one another].
  4. servant

Derived terms

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Adverb

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cèile

  1. Alternative form of a chèile

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
cèile chèile
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cèile”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “céile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language