caislín

Irish

Etymology 1

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Noun

caislín m (genitive singular caislín, nominative plural caislíní)

1. chat (small Old World passerine bird in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae)

Derived terms

• caislín aitinn (“whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)”)
• caislín cloch (“stonechat (Saxicola spp.)”)
• caislín dearg (“cock stonechat”)

Etymology 2

From casla (“small harbour, creek”) +‎ -ín (diminutive suffix).

Noun

caislín m (genitive singular caislín, nominative plural caislíní)

1. streamlet

Synonyms

• altán, sreabhán, sruthlán

Declension

Declension of caislín (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative caislín caislíní vocative a chaislín a chaislíní genitive caislín caislíní dative caislín caislíní forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an caislín na caislíní genitive an chaislín na gcaislíní dative leis an gcaislín don chaislín leis na caislíní

Mutation

Mutated forms of caislín

radical	lenition	eclipsis
caislín	chaislín	gcaislín

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caislín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN