aibreog
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From English apricot, apricock, abrecock (assimilated to the suffix -eog, from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abercoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία (berikokkía, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”).
Noun edit
aibreog f (genitive singular aibreoige, nominative plural aibreoga)
Declension edit
Declension of aibreog
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 |
aibreog | n-aibreog | haibreog | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aibreog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN