bailc

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish bailc, balc (“strength; fullness”), from Proto-Celtic *balko-, from Proto-Indo-European *bel- (“strength”), see also Sanskrit बल (bala, “power, strength”), Ancient Greek βελτίων (beltíōn, “better”).[1]

Noun

bailc f (genitive singular bailce, nominative plural bailceanna)

  1. downpour
    Synonym: doirteán
    bailc fearthainne ― a heavy shower

Declension

Declension of bailc (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative bailc bailceanna
vocative a bhailc a bhailceanna
genitive bailce bailceanna
dative bailc bailceanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an bhailc na bailceanna
genitive na bailce na mbailceanna
dative leis an mbailc
don bhailc 		leis na bailceanna

Mutation

Mutated forms of bailc
radical lenition eclipsis
bailc bhailc mbailc

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

References

  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “bailceach”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN

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