caol

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cáel,[1] from Proto-Celtic *koilos (thin) (compare Cornish and Welsh cul).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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caol (genitive singular masculine caoil, genitive singular feminine caoile, plural caola, comparative caoile)

  1. thin, slender
    Synonym: tanaí
  2. fine
  3. narrow
    Synonym: cúng
  4. (sound) thin, shrill
  5. (linguistics) slender, palatalized
    Caol le caol agus leathan le leathan. (rule in Irish spelling)
    Slender (consonant) goes with slender (vowel) and broad (consonant) with broad (vowel).
  6. weak, dilute
  7. slight
  8. subtle

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Noun

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caol m (genitive singular caoil, nominative plural caolta)

  1. slender part (of body, limb)
  2. narrow water, strait
  3. (basketry) osier, twig

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Verb

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caol (present analytic caolann, future analytic caolfaidh, verbal noun caoladh, past participle caolta)

  1. Alternative form of caolaigh (become thin)

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
caol chaol gcaol
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 71

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cáel, from Proto-Celtic *koilos (thin) (compare Cornish and Welsh cul).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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caol

  1. thin, narrow

Antonyms

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Noun

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caol m (genitive singular caoil, plural caoiltean)

  1. strait, narrows, firth, kyle
  2. the narrow part of anything

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Descendants

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  • English: kyle

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
caol chaol
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. Edward Dwelly (1911) “caol”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN