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From Middle Irish cuisle (“pipe, tube”), from Old Irish cusle, of obscure origin. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).[1] Not related to Latin pulsus.
cuisle f (genitive singular cuisle or cuisleann, nominative plural cuislí or cuisleanna or cuisleacha)
- pulse (regular beat felt when the arteries are depressed)
- (chiefly figuratively) vein, blood vessel
- forearm, wrist
- (figuratively) channel
- (geology) seam
- (music) flute
- (architecture) flute (groove in a column)
- Alternative plural form: cuisleacha
- Archaic fifth-declension forms:
- → English: acushla (from vocative a chuisle)
- → English: macushla (from mo chuisle (literally “my pulse”))
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cuisle”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page cuisle
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 228, page 115
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 43, page 19
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuisle”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cuisle”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 212
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuisle”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cuisle”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cuisle”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
From Middle Irish cuisle (“pipe, tube”), from Old Irish cusle, of obscure origin. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew- (“to cover”).[1] Not related to Latin pulsus.
cuisle f (plural cuislean)
- a vein or artery
- pulse
- stream
- pipe
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cuisle”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[2], Stirling, →ISBN, page cuisle