puball

See also: pùball

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish pupall, borrowed from Latin pāpiliō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpˠʊbˠəl̪ˠ/

Noun

puball m (genitive singular pubaill, nominative plural pubaill)

1. tent

Declension

Declension of puball

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative puball pubaill Vocative a phubaill a phuballa Genitive pubaill puball Dative puball pubaill

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an puball na pubaill Genitive an phubaill na bpuball Dative leis an bpuball don phuball leis na pubaill

Derived terms

• pionna pubaill (“tent peg”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
puball	phuball	bpuball
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pupall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “puball”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN