preab
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish prep (“a bounce, start”). The verb, which is not attested before Early Modern Irish, is from the noun.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]preab f (genitive singular preibe, nominative plural preaba)
- start, bound
- bounce, hop (of ball)
- throb, twitch
- kick
- sod turned by spade, spadeful of earth
- dash, spirit
Declension
[edit]Declension of preab
Derived terms
[edit]- athphreab f (“rebound”)
Verb
[edit]preab (present analytic preabann, future analytic preabfaidh, verbal noun preabadh, past participle preabtha)
- (intransitive) start, spring, jump
- (intransitive, of ball) bounce, hop
- (intransitive) throb, twitch
Conjugation
[edit]conjugation of preab (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
preab | phreab | bpreab |
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) “preab”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “prep”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “preab”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “preab”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024