murlas

Irish

murlas

Alternative forms

• murlasc
• murlus (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈmˠʌɾˠl̪ˠəsˠ/

Noun

murlas m (genitive singular murlais, nominative plural murlais)

1. (Ulster) mackerel (edible fish of the family Scombridae)

   Synonyms: maicréal, ronnach

Declension

Declension of murlas (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative murlas murlais vocative a mhurlais a mhurlasa genitive murlais murlas dative murlas murlais forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an murlas na murlais genitive an mhurlais na murlas dative leis an murlas don mhurlas leis na murlais

Mutation

Mutated forms of murlas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
murlas	mhurlas	not applicable

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

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “murlus”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 503
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “murlas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 50