cuisle

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cuisle (“pipe, tube”), from Old Irish cusle, of obscure origin. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).[1] Not related to Latin pulsus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɪʃl̠ʲə/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkʊʃl̠ʲə/[2]

Noun

cuisle f (genitive singular cuisle or cuisleann, nominative plural cuislí or cuisleanna or cuisleacha)

  1. pulse (regular beat felt when the arteries are depressed)
  2. (chiefly figuratively) vein, blood vessel
  3. forearm, wrist
  4. (figuratively) channel
  5. (geology) seam
  6. (music) flute
  7. (architecture) flute (groove in a column)

Declension
Declension of cuisle

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cuisle cuislí
Vocative a chuisle a chuislí
Genitive cuisle cuislí
Dative cuisle cuislí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an chuisle na cuislí
Genitive na cuisle na gcuislí
Dative leis an gcuisle

don chuisle

 leis na cuislí
  • Alternative plural form: cuisleacha
  • Archaic fifth-declension forms:
Declension of cuisle

Fifth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cuisle cuisleanna
Vocative a chuisle a chuisleanna
Genitive cuisleann cuisleann
Dative cuislinn cuisleanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an chuisle na cuisleanna
Genitive na cuisleann na gcuisleann
Dative leis an gcuislinn

don chuislinn

 leis na cuisleanna

Synonyms
  • (vein): féith (used of literal veins)
  • (blood vessel): fuileadán (used of literal blood vessels)
  • (forearm): rí
  • (channel): géag, góilín
  • (musical instrument): fliúit, feadóg mhór

Derived terms
  • cuisleach (“veined”, adjective)
  • cuisligh (“flow; flute; pipe”, verb)

Descendants
  • → English: acushla (from vocative a chuisle)
  • → English: macushla (from mo chuisle (literally “my pulse”))

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cuisle chuisle gcuisle
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cuisle”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page cuisle
  2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 19

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish cuisle (“pipe, tube”), from Old Irish cusle, of obscure origin. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew- (“to cover”).[1] Not related to Latin pulsus.

Noun

cuisle f (plural cuislean)

  1. a vein or artery
  2. pulse
  3. stream
  4. pipe

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

References
  1. MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cuisle”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page cuisle
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