cailech

== Old Irish == === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *kalyākos, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“call”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈka.lʲəx/ (Blasse) [ˈka.lʲex] (Griffith) [ˈka.lʲəx] === Noun === cailech m (genitive cailig, nominative plural cailig) rooster ==== Inflection ==== ==== Descendants ==== Irish: coileach Manx: kellagh Scottish Gaelic: coileach === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 cailech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language