aibreog

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Irish

Etymology

From English apricot, apricock, abrecock (assimilated to the suffix -eog, from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abercoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία (berikokkía, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”).

Noun

aibreog f (genitive singular aibreoige, nominative plural aibreoga)

  1. apricot

Declension

Declension of aibreog (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative aibreog aibreoga
vocative a aibreog a aibreoga
genitive aibreoige aibreog
dative aibreog
aibreoig (archaic, dialectal) 		aibreoga
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an aibreog na haibreoga
genitive na haibreoige na n-aibreog
dative leis an aibreog
leis an aibreoig (archaic, dialectal)
don aibreog
don aibreoig (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na haibreoga

Mutation

Mutated forms of aibreog
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aibreog n-aibreog haibreog not applicable

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

References

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