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cèile

cèile

See also: céile and -cèile

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cèile m, f ‎(genitive singular cèile, plural cèilean)

spouse, husband, wife
Chan eil cèile agam.‎ ― I don't have a husband/wife/spouse.
counterpart, fellow; equal, match
other

An dèidh sin, phòg iad a chèile.‎ ― After that they kissed each other.

Bha iad a' bruidhinn ri chèile.‎ ― They were speaking with each other.

Tha na taighean caob math bho chèile.‎ ― The houses are a good bit apart [from one another].
servant

Derived terms

Terms derived from cèile

an sreath a chèile ‎(“in a row”)
céile-Dé m ‎(“preserver of the fires; culdee”)
-cèile ‎(“-in-law”)

freagair a chèile ‎(“agree, correspond”)
le chèile ‎(“together; both”)

sreath chèile ‎(“in a row”)
tro-chèile ‎(“confused; upset; untidy”)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
cèile	chèile
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Adverb

cèile

Alternative form of a chèile

References

Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
“céile” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.