Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish prep (a bounce, start).[1] The verb, which is not attested before Early Modern Irish, is from the noun.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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preab f (genitive singular preibe, nominative plural preaba)

  1. start, bound
  2. bounce, hop (of ball)
  3. throb, twitch
  4. kick
  5. sod turned by spade, spadeful of earth
  6. dash, spirit

Declension

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Derived terms

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Verb

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preab (present analytic preabann, future analytic preabfaidh, verbal noun preabadh, past participle preabtha) (intransitive)

  1. start, spring, jump
  2. bounce, hop (of a ball)
  3. throb, twitch

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
preab phreab bpreab
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “prep”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 215, page 110

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