Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish amlabra (“dumbness”), from amlabar (“dumb, mute”).
Noun
amhlabhra f (genitive singular amhlabhra)
- inarticulateness, bad delivery
Declension
Declension of amhlabhra (fourth declension, no plural)
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Derived terms
- amhlabhrach (“crude of speech; inarticulate”, adjective)
Mutation
Mutated forms of amhlabhra
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| amhlabhra
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n-amhlabhra
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hamhlabhra
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not applicable
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “amhlabhra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “amlabra”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language