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Irish
Etymology
From bolg (“belly”) + -óg.
Pronunciation
Noun
boilgeog f (genitive singular boilgeoige, nominative plural boilgeoga)
- bubble (spherically contained volume of air or other gas)
- Synonym: bolgán
- bead (small drop of liquid)
- Synonym: mónóg
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| boilgeog
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bhoilgeog
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mboilgeog
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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
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “builgeog”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “boilgeog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 45