ciorcal
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish circul (compare Manx kiarkyl, Scottish Gaelic cearcall), from Latin circulus.
Pronunciation
Noun
ciorcal m (genitive singular ciorcail, nominative plural ciorcail)
Declension
Declension of ciorcal
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- An Ciorcal Artach (“the Arctic Circle”)
- ciorcal lochtach (“vicious circle”)
- ciorcal na naoi bpointe (“nine-point circle”)
- ciorclach (“circular; cyclical”, adjective)
- ciorclaigh (“encircle”, verb)
- mórchiorcal (“great circle”)
Mutation
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ciorcal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “circul”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language