ceangal

Irish

From Middle Irish cengal (“bond, fetter”), from Latin cingulum (“girdle, belt”).

ceangal m (genitive singular ceangail, nominative plural ceangail)

Declension of ceangal (first declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an ceangal	na ceangail
genitive	an cheangail	na gceangal
dative	leis an gceangal don cheangal	leis na ceangail

Mutated forms of *ceangal*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
ceangal	cheangal	gceangal

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

^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 41, page 22
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 215, page 81

From Middle Irish cengal (“bond, tie, binding, fetter, fastening”), from Latin cingulum (“girdle, belt”).

ceangal m

Mutation of *ceangal*
radical	lenition
ceangal	cheangal

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

^ Oftedal, M. (1956), A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, pages 66, 134, 151, 241
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940), A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 239
^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941), A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, pages 17, 36
^ Wentworth, Roy (2003), Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
^ Holmer, Nils M. (1938), Studies on Argyllshire Gaelic, Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri-A.-B., page 137