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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish imroll (“a badly-aimed shot or cast, a miss; straying, error, mistake”).
Noun
iomrall m (genitive singular iomraill)
- aberration, error
- (literary) missed throw, miss
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| iomrall
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n-iomrall
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hiomrall
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t-iomrall
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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) “iomrall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imroll”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “iomrall”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “iomrall”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish imroll (“a badly-aimed shot or cast, a miss; straying, error, mistake”).
Pronunciation
Noun
iomrall m (genitive singular iomraill, plural iomrallan)
- error, mistake
- straying, wandering
Mutation
References
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
Further reading