ciall

See also: cíall

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cíall, from Proto-Celtic *kʷeislā (compare Welsh pwyll).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ciəl̪ˠ/

Noun

ciall f (genitive singular céille, nominative plural cialla)

1. sense (conscious awareness, sound judgment, natural ability)
2. sanity
3. common sense, reason (rational thinking)
4. meaning, sense

Declension

Declension of ciall (second declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative ciall cialla vocative a chiall a chialla genitive céille ciall dative ciall céill (in certain phrases) cialla forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an chiall na cialla genitive na céille na gciall dative leis an gciall don chiall leis na cialla

Derived terms

• aingiall f (“unreason”)
• aonchiallach (“univocal; unequivocal”)
• aonchiallacht (“univocity”)
• céillí
• ciallach (“dear one, friend”)
• ciallaigh
• ciallchogar (“confidential whisper”)
• ciallmhar (“sensible, reasonable”)
• cur i gcéill (“pretence, make-believe”)
• fochiall (“secondary meaning, connotation”)
• gan chiall

Mutation

Mutated forms of ciall

radical	lenition	eclipsis
ciall	chiall	gciall

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “ciall”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 135
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “ciall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “ciall”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “ciall”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cíall, from Proto-Celtic *kʷeislā (compare Welsh pwyll).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰʲiaɫ̪/

Noun

ciall f (dative singular ciall or cèill, genitive singular cèille)

1. significance, implication,
2. understanding, meaning, drift, connotation
3. mind, sanity
4. sense, reason

Derived terms

• ciallach (“rational, sensible”)
• ciallaich (“mean”)

Mutation

Mutation of ciall

radical	lenition
ciall	chiall

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cíall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language