ciorcal

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish circul (compare Manx kiarkyl, Scottish Gaelic cearcall), from Latin circulus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈciɾˠkəlˠ/

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

An Ciorcal Artach (“the Arctic Circle”)
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.

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