úllord

Irish

Alternative forms

• abhallghort (dated)
• abhlord

Etymology

From Old Irish aball-gort, a compound of aball (“apple-tree”) and gort (“field; land, territory”). By surface analysis, úll (“apple”) +‎ gort (“field”).

Noun

úllord m (genitive singular úlloird, nominative plural úlloird)

1. (apple-)orchard

Declension

Declension of úllord

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative úllord úlloird Vocative a úlloird a úllorda Genitive úlloird úllord Dative úllord úlloird

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-úllord na húlloird Genitive an úlloird na n-úllord Dative leis an úllord don úllord leis na húlloird

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
úllord	n-úllord	húllord	t-úllord
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “úllord”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aball”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gort”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “úllord”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “úllord”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024