Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Irish duillebar (foliage).[2] By surface analysis, duille (leaf) +‎ -úr.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

duilliúr m (genitive singular duilliúir)

  1. leaves
  2. foliage
    Synonym: clúmh
  3. greenery

Declension edit

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
duilliúr dhuilliúr nduilliúr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ duilliúr”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “duillebar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 84

Further reading edit