Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish erlabrae, airlabrae.[1] By surface analysis, ur- +‎ labhra.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

urlabhra f (genitive singular urlabhra, nominative plural urlabhraí)

  1. faculty of speech, speech, utterance, expression
  2. manner of speech, diction

Declension edit

Mutation edit

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

References edit

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airlabrae or dil.ie/2160”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 25