culaith

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cula(i)d (“equipment, gear; attire, suit”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kl̪ˠɪh/, /kl̪ˠɞh/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔl̪ˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlˠi/

Noun

culaith f (genitive singular culaithe, nominative plural cultacha)

1. suit (of clothes), dress, apparel
2. gear, equipment

Declension

Declension of culaith

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative culaith cultacha Vocative a chulaith a chultacha Genitive culaithe cultacha Dative culaith cultacha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an chulaith na cultacha Genitive na culaithe na gcultacha Dative leis an gculaith don chulaith leis na cultacha

Derived terms

• culaith ghnó
• culaith oíche

 

Related terms

• culaithirt f (“dress; gear, trapping”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
culaith	chulaith	gculaith
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “culaith”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “culaith”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “culaith”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cula(i)d”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language