pabell

Welsh[edit]

Back-formation from the plural pebyll, from Middle Welsh pebyll sg, from Proto-Brythonic *pėbɨll, from Vulgar Latin păpiliō, from Latin pāpiliō (“butterfly”). Cognate with Old Irish pupall (whence Irish puball, Scottish Gaelic pùball).

(North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈpabɛɬ/
- (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈpabaɬ/
(South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːbɛɬ/, /ˈpabɛɬ/

pabell f (plural pebyll)^[1]

tent
Peidiwch â phoeni'r merched yn y babell nesa.^[2]
Don’t pester the girls in the next tent.

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pabell	babell	mhabell	phabell
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pabell”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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