caile

Etymology
Unconfirmed but may be from. A 1768 Irish-English dictionary explains caile as. The same and later dictionaries mention this as analogous to the Greek pulchra/pulcher calḗ (Καλή), and the Hebrew word calla spōnsa nurus which appears to mean prospective daughter in law.

By 1780 the word caile is showing as meaning either  or  and then appears far more frequently alongside the neural connotions.

If the origin of the word is caile meaning girl, it survives within the word gearrchaile

Noun

 * 1) girl, wench

Declension

 * Masculine


 * Feminine

Etymology
Possibly related to 🇨🇬 which cognates with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) serving-girl, maid

Inflection
Accusative form in caili attested in the Middle Irish Book of Leinster manuscript points to feminine iā-stem declension but it might be just a late spelling of in caile. Classical Gaelic grammatical tracts list it among masculine nouns and genitive an chaile in bardic poetry points to masculine gender. In Modern Irish it appears both as a masculine and a feminine noun.

The declension table below assumes the accusative in caili from The Book of Leinster is correct for Old Irish.

Etymology 1
From ; compare 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) vulgar girl, quean, hussy
 * 2) strumpet
 * 3)  any young girl
 * 4) maidservant who does more or less other work than housework

Noun

 * 1) capacity