ubhal

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Scottish Gaelic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish uball, from Old Irish ubull,[1] from Proto-Celtic *abūl, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ubhal m (genitive singular ubhail, plural ùbhlan)

  1. apple

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ubhal n-ubhal h-ubhal t-ubhal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “ubhal”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN