abhlóir
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish oblóir, ablóir, oblaire m (“juggler”), possibly from obull (“juggler's ball”), a variant of ubull (“apple”) (compare modern úll).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abhlóir m (genitive singular abhlóra, nominative plural abhlóirí)
- buffoon, fool; boor
- confused, bewildered, person
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- abhlóireacht f (“(act of) clowning, playing the fool; buffoonery”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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abhlóir | n-abhlóir | habhlóir | t-abhlóir |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 10, page 8
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “abhlóir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oblóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oblaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “abhlóir”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “abhlóir”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024