Noun
cuaille m (genitive singular cuaille, nominative plural cuaillí)
- pole; stake, post
- (heraldry) pale
- tall, thin person; lank, lazy person
Declension
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Synonyms
- (tall, thin person): coinnleoir m, léanscach m, pícealach m, sciúirse m, sínéalach m, spiacán m, spíce (de dhuine) m, spícéad m, spídéalach m, sreangaire m, sreangán m
Derived terms
- cleas an chuaille (“somersault”) (using pole, stick)
- cuaille báire (“goal-post”)
- cuaille comhraic (“challenge pole”)
- cuaille críche, cuaille teorann (“boundary post”)
- cuaille eolais (“signpost”)
- cuaille feistithe (“mooring-post”)
- cuaille geata (“gate post”)
- cuaille lampa (“lamp-post”)
- cuaille teileagraif (“telegraph pole”)
- cuaille tosaithe (“starting-post”)
- cuaille treo (“direction post”)
- cuaille treorach (“alignment picket”)
- cuailleach (“impaled”, adjective)
- cuailligh (“stud”, transitive verb)
- fál cuaillí (“picket-fence, stake fence”)
- lampa cuaille (“standard lamp”)
- léim chuaille (“pole vault”)
- sá cuaillí (“pole-planting”)
- sáiteoir cuaillí (“pole-sinker”)
Mutation
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chuaille |
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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References
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cofl”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies