Noun: cuil
Gender: Fem
Forms without Article
| Singular Nominative | cuil |
| Singular Genitive | cuile |
| Plural Nominative | cuileanna |
| Plural Genitive | cuileanna |
Forms with Article
| Singular Nominative | an chuil |
| Singular Genitive | na cuile |
| Plural Nominative | na cuileanna |
| Plural Genitive | na gcuileanna |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like cuil
aerbhunáit,
aermhais,
aerpháirc,
aghaidh,
aidhm,
ailt,
aincheist,
aip,
aisléim,
ais,
aois,
baois,
beirt,
beith,
bleaist,
breis,
breith,
bris,
bunchéim,
bunscoil, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Irish cuil (“fly; flea, gnat”), from Proto-Celtic *kulis (compare Scottish Gaelic cuileag, Breton kelien, Welsh cylion), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló- (compare Latin culex (“gnat”), Old Armenian սլաք (slakʻ, “roasting spit”)). See: Latin Nouns '
culex'.
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