ampaill

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ampaill f (“flask; pyx”), from Latin ampulla f (“two-handled vessel with a swollen middle”).

Noun

ampaill f (genitive singular ampaille, nominative plural ampaillí)

1. ampulla

Declension

Declension of ampaill (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ampaill ampaillí vocative a ampaill a ampaillí genitive ampaille ampaillí dative ampaill ampaillí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an ampaill na hampaillí genitive na hampaille na n-ampaillí dative leis an ampaill don ampaill leis na hampaillí

Mutation

Mutated forms of ampaill

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ampaill	n-ampaill	hampaill	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) “ampaill”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ampaill”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language