eireaball
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish erball,[1] from Proto-Celtic *ballos (“penis, member”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈɛɾʲəbˠəl̪ˠ/[2]
- (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈɾˠɨbˠəl̪ˠ/[3] (corresponding to alternative form rioball)
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈɾˠʌbˠəl̪ˠ/[4] (corresponding to alternative form ruball); /ˈɾˠɨbˠəl̪ˠ/[5] (corresponding to alternative form rioball)
Noun
[edit]eireaball m (genitive singular eireabaill, nominative plural eireabaill)
- tail (of animal, comet, etc.)
- (tail) end
- (music) tail, stem (of note)
- Synonym: eireaball nóta
- (computing) trailer
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- casóg eireabaill (“swallow-tail coat”)
- cóta eireabaill (“swallow-tail coat”)
- eireaball cait (“cat's-tail, reed-mace”)
- eireaball capaill (“horsetail”)
- eireaball cóiméid (“tail (of a comet)”)
- eireaball dreige (“trail of meteor”)
- eireaballach (“tailed; caudal”, adjective)
- eireaballán (“tail-piece”)
- gearreireaballach (“short-tailed”, adjective)
- péist eireabaill (“tailworm (in cattle)”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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eireaball | n-eireaball | heireaball | t-eireaball |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “erball”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 144, page 74
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 217
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 57, page 25
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 103, page 40
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eireaball”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “eireaball”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “eireaball”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024