ooyl
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Manx[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Irish uball, from Old Irish ubull[1] (compare Scottish Gaelic ubhal), from Proto-Celtic *abūl (“apple”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.
Noun[edit]
ooyl f (genitive singular ooyley or ooylagh, plural ooylyn)
- apple
- yn dooinney dasyn hug mee yn ooyl ― the man to whom I gave the apple
References[edit]
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “uball, ubull”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language