ooyl
Manx edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish uball, from Old Irish ubull[1] (compare Scottish Gaelic ubhal), from Proto-Celtic *abūl (“apple”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.
Noun edit
ooyl f (genitive singular ooyley or ooylagh, plural ooylyn)
- apple
- yn dooinney dasyn hug mee yn ooyl ― the man to whom I gave the apple
References edit
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “uball, ubull”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language