súil ribe
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Literally “eye of a snare”, from Middle Irish rib (“snare”), conflated with ruibe (“(individual) hair”) (now spelled ribe).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
súil ribe f (genitive singular súile ribe, nominative plural súile ribe)
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
súil ribe | shúil ribe after an, tsúil ribe |
not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- “súil-ribe”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “rib”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “ribe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ribe”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 30