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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aibreog n-aibreog haibreog not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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