ooyl

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Etymology

From Middle Irish uball, from Old Irish ubull[1] (compare Scottish Gaelic ubhal), from Proto-Celtic *abūl (“apple”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

Noun

ooyl f (genitive singular ooyley or ooylagh, plural ooylyn)

  1. apple
    yn dooinney dasyn hug mee yn ooyl ― the man to whom I gave the apple

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “uball, ubull”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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