eireaball

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish erball,[1] from Proto-Celtic *ballos (“penis, member”).

Pronunciation

Noun

eireaball m (genitive singular eireabaill, nominative plural eireabaill)

  1. tail (of animal, comet, etc.)
  2. (tail) end
  3. (music) tail, stem (of note)
    Synonym: eireaball nóta
  4. (computing) trailer

Declension

Declension of eireaball (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative eireaball eireabaill
vocative a eireabaill a eireaballa
genitive eireabaill eireaball
dative eireaball eireabaill
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-eireaball na heireabaill
genitive an eireabaill na n-eireaball
dative leis an eireaball
don eireaball 		leis na heireabaill

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of eireaball
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eireaball n-eireaball heireaball t-eireaball

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “erball”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 144, page 74
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 217
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 57, page 25
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 103, page 40

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