eireaball
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
eireaball m (genitive singular eireabaill, nominative plural eireabaill)
- tail (of animal, comet, etc.)
- (tail) end
- (music) tail, stem (of note)
- Synonym: eireaball nóta
Declension
Declension of eireaball
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- casóg eireabaill, cóta eireabaill (“swallow-tail coat”)
- eireaball cait (“cat's-tail, reed-mace”)
- eireaball capaill (“horsetail”)
- eireaball cóiméid (“tail”) (of a comet)
- eireaball dreige (“trail of meteor”)
- eireaballach (“tailed; caudal”, adjective)
- eireaballán (“tail-piece”)
- gearreireaballach (“short-tailed; curtailed, scanty”, adjective)
- péist eireabaill (“tailworm”) (in cattle)
Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
eireaball | n-eireaball | heireaball | t-eireaball |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eireaball”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “erball”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “eireaball”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “eireaball”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024