culaith

culaith

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cula(i)d (“equipment, gear; attire, suit”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kl̪ˠɪh/, /kl̪ˠɞh/[1]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔl̪ˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlˠi/

Noun

culaith f (genitive singular culaithe, nominative plural cultacha)

1. suit (of clothes), dress, apparel
2. gear, equipment

Declension

Declension of culaith

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative culaith cultacha Vocative a chulaith a chultacha Genitive culaithe cultacha Dative culaith cultacha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an chulaith na cultacha Genitive na culaithe na gcultacha Dative leis an gculaith don chulaith leis na cultacha

Derived terms

• culaith ghnó
• culaith oíche

 

Related terms

• culaithirt f (“dress; gear, trapping”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
culaith	chulaith	gculaith
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

1. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, page 191

Further reading

• Entries containing “culaith” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “culaith” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “culaith”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cula(i)d”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language