doirb
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]doirb f (genitive singular doirbe, nominative plural doirbeacha)
- small insect or worm, especially one that lives in water; water beetle
Declension
[edit]Declension of doirb
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Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| doirb | dhoirb | ndoirb |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
[edit]- ^ “doirb”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “darbh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 283, page 100
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dorb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “dairb”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 220
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “doirbh”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 254
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “doirb”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN