cèile
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish céile (“servant, bondsman, vassal, subject; liege, vassal; fellow, companion; husband, wife”), from Primitive Irish ᚉᚓᚂᚔ (celi, “follower, devotee (genitive)”), from Proto-Celtic *kēlyos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kʰʲeːlɪ], /kʰʲeːlə/
Noun
cèile m or f (genitive singular cèile, plural cèilean)
- spouse, husband, wife
- Chan eil cèile agam. ― I don't have a husband/wife/spouse.
- counterpart, fellow; equal, match
- other
- An dèidh sin, phòg iad a chèile. ― After that they kissed each other.
- Bha iad a' bruidhinn ri chèile. ― They were speaking with each other.
- Tha na taighean caob math bho chèile. ― The houses are a good bit apart [from one another].
- servant
Derived terms
- an sreath a chèile (“in a row”)
- -cèile (“-in-law”)
- céile-Dé m (“preserver of the fires; culdee”)
- freagair a chèile (“agree, correspond”)
- le chèile (“together; both”)
- sreath chèile (“in a row”)
- tro-chèile (“confused; upset; untidy”)
Adverb
cèile
- Alternative form of a chèile
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition |
| cèile | chèile |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “cèile”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “céile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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