caiseal

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish caisel, from Latin castellum.

Noun

caiseal m (genitive singular caisil, nominative plural caisil)

1. (ancient) stone fort
2. unmortared stone wall
3. (of church, cemetery) boundary wall
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: Case Singular Plural Nominative caiseal caisil Vocative a chaisil a chaiseala Genitive caisil caiseal Dative caiseal caisil

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an caiseal na caisil Genitive an chaisil na gcaiseal Dative leis an gcaiseal don chaiseal leis na caisil

Derived terms

• caiseal tosaigh (“forecastle”)
• caiseal uchta (“breastwork”)
• caisealach (“castellated”, adjective)
• caisealta (“walled, fortified”, adjective)
• caisleán (“castle; mansion; cumulus”)
• caisligh (“castle”, transitive verb)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
caiseal	chaiseal	gcaiseal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caiseal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “caisel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language