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cuisle

cuisle

Irish

Noun

cuisle f ‎(genitive singular cuisle, nominative plural cuislí)

pulse (regular beat felt when the arteries are depressed)
vein, blood vessel (mostly used figuratively)

Declension

Declension of cuisle

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cuisle	cuislí
Vocative	a chuisle	a chuislí
Genitive	cuisle	cuislí
Dative	cuisle	cuislí

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an chuisle	na cuislí
Genitive	na cuisle	na gcuislí
Dative	leis an gcuisle don chuisle	leis na cuislí

Archaic fifth-declension forms:

Declension of cuisle

Fifth declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cuisle	cuisleanna
Vocative	a chuisle	a chuisleanna
Genitive	cuisleann	cuisleann
Dative	cuislinn	cuisleanna

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an chuisle	na cuisleanna
Genitive	na cuisleann	na gcuisleann
Dative	leis an gcuislinn don chuislinn	leis na cuisleanna

Synonyms

(vein): féith (used of literal veins)
(blood vessel): fuileadán (used of literal blood vessels)

Descendants

English: acushla

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cuisle	chuisle	gcuisle
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cuisle f ‎(plural cuislean)