béarlagair
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom English vernacular, altered by folk etymology to resemble béarla (“language, speech”) (compare Béarla (“English language”)).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbéarlagair m (genitive singular béarlagair)
Declension
editDeclension of béarlagair
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
edit- béarlagair na saor (“masons' slang”)
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
béarlagair | bhéarlagair | mbéarlagair |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 21
Further reading
edit- “béarlagair”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bérlacair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “béarlagair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “jargon”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- “slang”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024