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Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
dreo m (genitive singular dreoite)
- verbal noun of dreoigh
- decay, rot, putrefaction
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| dreo
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dhreo
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ndreo
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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
- “dreo”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dreó(ga)d”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dreo”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN