# gual
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin vadum, with influence of Germanic, compare Italian guado (“ford”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡwal]

### Noun

gual m (plural guals)
* ford (a location where a stream is shallow)
* dip (a lower section of a road)

### Further reading

* “gual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “gual”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “gual” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “gual” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Irish
### Etymology

From Middle Irish gúal (“charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Celtic *goulos, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”), though the details are unclear.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡuəl̪ˠ/, /ɡuəlˠ/

### Noun

gual m (genitive singular guail)
* coal

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
nominative
gual
vocative
a ghuail
genitive
guail
dative
gual
forms with the definite article
case
singular
nominative
an gual
genitive
an ghuail
dative
leis an ngual don ghual :

#### Derived terms

* bád guail (“collier”)
* clochghual (“anthracite, hard coal”)
* féan guail (“corf”)
* fioghual (“charcoal”)
* gual donn (“brown coal, lignite”)
* gual glan (“clean coal”)
* gualach (“charcoal”)
* gualcha (“coal mine, colliery”)
* gualmhianach (“coal mine”)
* meall guail (“coal ball”)
* mianach guail (“coal mine, colliery”)
* mianadóir guail m (“coal-miner”)
* mianadóireacht guail f (“coal-mining”)
* pota guail (“collier”)
* síog ghuail (“coal seam”)
* soitheach guail (“collier”)
* tarra guail (“coal tar”)

### Mutation

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

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gúal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gowlo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 165
* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 209, page 105
* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 130

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gual”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Middle Irish gúal (“charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Celtic *goulos, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”), though the details are unclear.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuəl̪ˠ/
* (Lewis) IPA: [kʊɔ̝̈l̪ˠ]

### Noun

gual m (genitive singular guail, no plural)
* coal

#### Derived terms

* gualan
* mèinn-ghuail

### References

* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gowlo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 165
* ↑ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

### Further reading

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “gual”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gúal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language