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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish bodarán (“tabor, drum”). By surface analysis, bodhar (“deaf”) + -án.
Pronunciation
Noun
bodhrán m (genitive singular bodhráin, nominative plural bodhráin)
- winnowing drum; bodhran
- deaf person; slow-witted person, dullard
Declension
Descendants
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| bodhrán
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bhodhrán
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mbodhrán
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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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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bodhrán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bodar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language