cispheil

See also: cicpheil

Irish

Etymology

From cis (“basket”) +‎ peil (“football”).

Noun

cispheil f (genitive singular cispheile)

1. basketball (game; physical ball)

Declension

Declension of cispheil (second declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative cispheil vocative a chispheil genitive cispheile dative cispheil forms with the definite article singular nominative an chispheil genitive na cispheile dative leis an gcispheil don chispheil

Mutation

Mutated forms of cispheil

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cispheil	chispheil	gcispheil

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cispheil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “cispheil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cispheil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025