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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish magarlín m, a diminutive of magarla, magairle (“testicle”). By surface analysis, magairle (“testicle”) + -ín.
Noun
magairlín m (genitive singular magairlín, nominative plural magairlíní)
- diminutive of magairle (“testicle”)
- orchid
Declension
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Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| magairlín
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mhagairlín
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not applicable
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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) “magairlín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “magarlín”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “magarla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language