cúlaigh

Irish

Alternative forms

  • cúl
  • cúluigh (obsolete)

Etymology

From cúl + -igh.

Verb

cúlaigh (present analytic cúlaíonn, future analytic cúlóidh, verbal noun cúlú, past participle cúlaithe)

  1. (intransitive) recede, withdraw (move back, move away)
    Synonym: téigh ar gcúl
  2. (military) retire, retreat (withdraw military forces)
    Synonym: téigh ar gcúl
  3. (transitive, intransitive) back (go in the reverse direction; move in the reverse direction), reverse (cause a mechanism to operate or move in the opposite direction)
    Chúlaigh sé an capall/carr.He reversed the car/backed the horse.
  4. flinch (make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)
  5. retrograde, regress (move backwards to an earlier stage)
  6. (rowing) backwater (row or paddle a backwater stroke)

Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cúlaigh chúlaigh gcúlaigh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • cúlaigh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “cúluiġim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 214
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), cúlaigh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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