aibéil

Irish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish aipéil, aipéile.

Noun

aibéil f (genitive singular aibéile)

1. quickness, suddenness

Declension

Declension of aibéil

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative aibéil aibéila Vocative a aibéil a aibéila Genitive aibéile aibéil Dative aibéil aibéila

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an aibéil na haibéila Genitive na haibéile na n-aibéil Dative leis an aibéil don aibéil leis na haibéila

Derived terms

• aibéil chainte (“back-chat”)

Adjective

aibéil (genitive singular masculine aibéil, genitive singular feminine aibéile, plural aibéile, comparative aibéile)

1. quick

Declension

Declension of aibéil

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	aibéil	aibéil	aibéile
Vocative	aibéil		aibéile
Genitive		aibéile	aibéile	aibéil
Dative	aibéil	aibéil	aibéile
Comparative	níos aibéile
Superlative	is aibéile

Derived terms

• go haibéil (“quickly, soon”, adverb)

Mutation

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aibéil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aipéil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language