aoibheall

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish oíbell (“heat; spark of flame”).[2][3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈiːvʲəl̪ˠ/[4]

Noun

aoibheall m (genitive singular aoibhill)

  1. (act of) gambolling, gadding

Declension

Declension of aoibheall (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative aoibheall
vocative a aoibhill
genitive aoibhill
dative aoibheall
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an t-aoibheall
genitive an aoibhill
dative leis an aoibheall
don aoibheall

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of aoibheall
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aoibheall n-aoibheall haoibheall t-aoibheall

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “aoibheall”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 oíbell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 oíbell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 124, page 48

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