doirb

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

doirb f (genitive singular doirbe, nominative plural doirbeacha)

  1. small insect or worm, especially one that lives in water; water beetle

Declension

Declension of doirb (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative doirb doirbeacha
vocative a dhoirb a dhoirbeacha
genitive doirbe doirbeacha
dative doirb doirbeacha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an doirb na doirbeacha
genitive na doirbe na ndoirbeacha
dative leis an doirb
don doirb 		leis na doirbeacha

Mutation

Mutated forms of doirb
radical lenition eclipsis
doirb dhoirb ndoirb

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “doirb”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “darbh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 283, page 100

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