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cairéal

cairéal

Irish

Alternative forms

coiléar

Noun

cairéal m ‎(genitive singular cairéil, nominative plural cairéil)

(mining) quarry

Declension

Declension of cairéal

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cairéal	cairéil
Vocative	a chairéil	a chairéala
Genitive	cairéil	cairéal
Dative	cairéal	cairéil

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an cairéal	na cairéil
Genitive	an chairéil	na gcairéal
Dative	leis an gcairéal don chairéal	leis na cairéil

Derived terms

cairéalacht f ‎(“(act of) quarrying”)
cairéalaí m ‎(“quarryman”)
cairéalaigh ‎(“quarry”, verb)
cloch chairéil f ‎(“quarry-stone”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cairéal	chairéal	gcairéal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"cairéal" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“cairél” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.