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ciorcal

ciorcal

Irish

Noun

ciorcal m ‎(genitive singular ciorcail, nominative plural ciorcail)

circle

Declension

Declension of ciorcal

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ciorcal	ciorcail
Vocative	a chiorcail	a chiorcala
Genitive	ciorcail	ciorcal
Dative	ciorcal	ciorcail

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an ciorcal	na ciorcail
Genitive	an chiorcail	na gciorcal
Dative	leis an gciorcal don chiorcal	leis na ciorcail

Derived terms

Terms derived from ciorcal

ciorcal lochtach ‎(“vicious circle”)
ciorcal na naoi bpointe ‎(“nine-point circle”)

ciorclach ‎(“circular; cyclical”, adjective)
ciorclaigh ‎(“encircle”, verb)

mórchiorcal ‎(“great circle”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
ciorcal	chiorcal	gciorcal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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