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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish dreóllán, dreoillén.
Pronunciation
Noun
dreoilín m (genitive singular dreoilín, nominative plural dreoilíní)
- wren
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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| dreoilín
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dhreoilín
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ndreoilín
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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) “dreoilín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “dreol(l)án”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “dreoillén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language