earball
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]earball (plural earballs)
- (acupuncture) A small ball kept in position in the ear and pressed when needed to relieve stress.
Anagrams
[edit]Irish
[edit]Noun
[edit]earball m (genitive singular earbaill, nominative plural earbaill)
- Alternative form of eireaball
Declension
[edit]Declension of earball
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 |
earball | n-earball | hearball | t-earball |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “earball”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “earball”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 278
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]earball m (genitive singular earbaill, plural earbaill)
- a tail
- earball an eich ― paddock-pipe, horsetail
- bun an earbaill ― the rump
- earball sguabach ― a bushy tail
- (informal, humorous) train of a dress
Derived terms
[edit]- earball an eich (“horsetail”)
- earball na misge (“hangover”)
Mutation
[edit]Scottish Gaelic mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
earball | n-earball | h-earball | t-earball |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “earball”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “erball”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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