nicil

Irish

Chemical element
Ni
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Etymology

Borrowed from English nickel, from German Nickel.

Noun

nicil f (genitive singular nicile, nominative plural nicilí)

1. nickel (silvery metal, coin worth five cents)

Declension

Declension of nicil (second declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative nicil nicilí vocative a nicil a nicilí genitive nicile nicilí dative nicil nicilí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an nicil na nicilí genitive na nicile na nicilí dative leis an nicil don nicil leis na nicilí

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “nicil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN