carball

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Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaɾˠəbˠəl̪ˠ/

Noun

carball m (genitive singular carbaill, nominative plural carbaill)

  1. palate, hard palate, roof of the mouth
  2. gum (flesh around the teeth)
    Synonym: drandal
  3. jaw
    Synonym: giall
  4. boulder
    Synonym: bollán

Declension

Declension of carball (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative carball carbaill
vocative a charbaill a charballa
genitive carbaill carball
dative carball carbaill
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an carball na carbaill
genitive an charbaill na gcarball
dative leis an gcarball
don charball 		leis na carbaill

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of carball
radical lenition eclipsis
carball charball gcarball

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

Further reading

  • “carball”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “carball”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
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