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cailech

cailech

Old Irish

Noun

cailech m

rooster

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Irish: coileach
Manx: kellagh
Scottish Gaelic: coileach

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cailech	chailech	cailech pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

“2 cailech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.