eireaball
Irish
Alternative forms
- earball, iorball, rioball, ruball
Etymology
From Old Irish erball.
Pronunciation
Noun
eireaball m (genitive singular eireabaill, nominative plural eireabaill)
Declension
Declension of eireaball
First declension
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- casóg eireabaill, cóta eireabaill (“swallow-tail coat”)
- eireaballach (“tailed; caudal”, adjective)
- eireaballán (“tail-piece”)
- eireaball cait (“cat's-tail, reed-mace”)
- eireaball capaill (“horsetail”)
- eireaball cóiméid (“tail”) (of a comet)
- eireaball dreige (“trail of meteor”)
- gearreireaballach (“short-tailed; curtailed, scanty”, adjective)
- péist eireabaill (“tailworm”) (in cattle)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| eireaball | n-eireaball | heireaball | t-eireaball |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 217.
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 25
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 40
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “eireaball”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “erball”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “eireaball” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “eireaball” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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