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Irish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
carball m (genitive singular carbaill, nominative plural carbaill)
- palate, hard palate, roof of the mouth
- gum (flesh around the teeth)
- Synonym: drandal
- jaw
- Synonym: giall
- boulder
- Synonym: bollán
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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carball
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charball
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gcarball
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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
- “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