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English
Verb
birling
- present participle and gerund of birl
Noun
birling (plural birlings)
- Alternative form of birlinn
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish beirling, borrowed from Old Norse byrðingr (compare Scottish Gaelic bìrlinn).
Noun
birling f (genitive singular birlinge, nominative plural birlingí)
- barge
- (commander's) galley
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| birling
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bhirling
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mbirling
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “birling”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “beirling”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “birling”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
Manx
Etymology
From Middle Irish beirling, borrowed from Old Norse byrðingr (compare Scottish Gaelic bìrlinn).
Noun
birling f (genitive singular birling, plural birleeyn)
- yacht
- galley, longship
Derived terms
Mutation
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