dalba
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dalba
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish dalbda (“lying, deceitful”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
dalba
- (Ulster) bold (presumptuous), forward (without customary restraint), brazen (immodest, shameless), impudent; naughty (tending to misbehave or act badly)
- Synonym: dána
Declension edit
Declension of dalba
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | dalba | dhalba | dalba; dhalba² | |
| Vocative | dhalba | dalba | ||
| Genitive | dalba | dalba | dalba | |
| Dative | dalba; dhalba¹ |
dhalba | dalba; dhalba² | |
| Comparative | níos dalba | |||
| Superlative | is dalba | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation edit
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| dalba | dhalba | ndalba |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading edit
- “dalba”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “dalbba, dolbba”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “dalba”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 221
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dalba”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 53
Lithuanian edit
Noun edit
dálba f stress pattern 1
Nyunga edit
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Noun edit
dalba
References edit
- 1839, George Grey, Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Language of Western Australia (Perth gazette and Western Australian journal)