pobal

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish popul m (“people, tribe, nation; folk, populace”), from Proto-Brythonic *pobl (compare Welsh pobl), from Latin populus.

Pronunciation

Noun

pobal m (genitive singular pobail, nominative plural pobail)

  1. (collectively) people; community
  2. (people of) parish; congregation
  3. population

Declension

Declension of pobal (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative pobal pobail
vocative a phobail a phobala
genitive pobail pobal
dative pobal pobail
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an pobal na pobail
genitive an phobail na bpobal
dative leis an bpobal
don phobal 		leis na pobail

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Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of pobal
radical lenition eclipsis
pobal phobal bpobal

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), “popul”, 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, § 162, page 82
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 359, page 123

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