caindel

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin candēla.

Noun

caindel f

candle, light
(figurative) paragon, hero

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	caindel^L	caindil^L	caindlea^H
vocative	caindel^L	caindil^L	caindlea^H
accusative	caindil^N	caindil^L	caindlea^H
genitive	caindle^H	caindel^L	caindel^N
dative	caindil^L	caindlib	caindlib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: caindel
- Irish: coinneal
- Manx: cainle
- Scottish Gaelic: coinneal

Mutation

Mutation of *caindel*
radical	lenition	nasalization
caindel	chaindel	caindel pronounced with /ɡ-/

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

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “caindel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language