éillín
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]éillín m (genitive singular éillín, nominative plural éillíní)
- brood (young of certain animals, especially birds)
- Synonym: ál
- clutch (brood of chickens or sitting of eggs)
Declension
[edit]Declension of éillín
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
éillín | n-éillín | héillín | t-éillín |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “éillín”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “éillín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 61