coinneáil - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
- coinneáilt
- coingbheáil, coingeáil, coinghbheáil, coinneál, coinneált, congáil, congbháil, congbháilt, congmháil (obsolete)
From Old Irish congbál. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cumail and Manx cummal.
- (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /ˈkɪn̠ʲɑːlʲ/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkɪn̠ʲalʲ/, /ˈkɪn̠ʲæl̠ʲtʲ/[1] (corresponding to the form coinneáilt)
coinneáil f (genitive singular coinneála)
- verbal noun of coinnigh (“keep”)
- maintenance
- retention
- detention
- observance
- coinneáil ama (“timekeeping”)
- coinneáil chiste (“fundholding”)
- coinneáil chosanta (“protective custody”)
- coinneáil fuail (“water retention”)
- coinneáil istigh (“detention”)
- coinneáil scóir (“scoring”)
- coinneáil siar (“withholding”)
- coinneáil uisce (“fluid retention, water retention”)
- coinneálach (“sustaining, supportive; retentive, tenacious”)
- coinneálacht (“retentiveness, retentivity”)
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| coinneáil | choinneáil | gcoinneáil |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 92
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “coinneáil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “coinneáil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coinneáil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN