uball

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ubull, from Proto-Celtic *abūl, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.βəl͈/

Noun

uball n

1. apple

Derived terms

• uball brágat
• uball gráinnech
• uball palmi

Related terms

• aball

Descendants

• Irish: úll
• Manx: ooyl
• Scottish Gaelic: ubhal

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
uball	unchanged	n-uball
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “uball, ubull”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language