abcolips

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• abcoilps

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin apocalypsis, from Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις (apokálupsis, “revelation”), from ἀπό (apó, “away”) and καλύπτω (kalúptō, “I cover”).

Noun

abcolips f

1. (Christianity) apocalypse

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
abcolips	unchanged	n-abcolips
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), “abcolips”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language