cuaille

Irish

Noun

cuaille m (genitive singular cuaille, nominative plural cuaillí)

pole; stake, post
(heraldry) pale
tall, thin person; lank, lazy person

Declension

Declension of cuaille

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cuaille	cuaillí
Vocative	a chuaille	a chuaillí
Genitive	cuaille	cuaillí
Dative	cuaille	cuaillí

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an cuaille	na cuaillí
Genitive	an chuaille	na gcuaillí
Dative	leis an gcuaille don chuaille	leis na cuaillí

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

Derived terms

cleas an chuaille (“somersault”) (using pole, stick)
cuailleach (“impaled”, adjective)
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”)
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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cuaille	chuaille	gcuaille
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

"cuaille" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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