aibreog

Irish

Etymology

From English apricot, apricock, abrecock (assimilated to the suffix -eog, from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abercoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία (berikokkía, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”).

Noun

aibreog f (genitive singular aibreoige, nominative plural aibreoga)

1. apricot

Declension

Declension of aibreog (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative aibreog aibreoga vocative a aibreog a aibreoga genitive aibreoige aibreog dative aibreog aibreoig (archaic, dialectal) aibreoga forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an aibreog na haibreoga genitive na haibreoige na n-aibreog dative leis an aibreog leis an aibreoig (archaic, dialectal) don aibreog don aibreoig (archaic, dialectal) leis na haibreoga

Mutation

Mutated forms of aibreog

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aibreog	n-aibreog	haibreog	not applicable

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aibreog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN