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Irish
Etymology 1
From Middle Irish borrad (“act of swelling”), verbal noun of borraid (“swells, becomes swollen, bloated”), from borr (“swelling; swollen, thick”).
Noun
borradh m (genitive singular borrtha)
- verbal noun of borr
- swelling, growth
- (electricity, nautical) surge
- Synonyms: borradh cumhachta, borradh leictreachais
- expansion
- Synonyms: fairsingiú, leathnú
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
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Noun
borradh m (genitive singular borrtha, nominative plural borrthaí or borraíocha)
- fulcrum
Declension
- Alternative declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| borradh
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bhorradh
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mborradh
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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) “borradh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “borrad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “borradh”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “borradh”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024