Béarlóir
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Béarla (“the English language”) + -óir (agent suffix) (compare Manx Baarleyr).
Noun
[edit]Béarlóir m (genitive singular Béarlóra, nominative plural Béarlóirí)
- English-speaker, Anglophone
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- Béarlóireacht f (“(act of) speaking English”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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Béarlóir | Bhéarlóir | mBéarlóir |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Béarlóir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Béarlóir”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm