mearbhall

Irish

Alternative forms

  • mearathal

Etymology

From Middle Irish merball,[1] from Old Irish merfall (synchronically mer (“crazy”) + sel (“a turn”)), from Proto-Celtic *meroswelos.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmʲaɾˠəwəl̪ˠ/

Noun

mearbhall m (genitive singular mearbhaill, nominative plural mearbhaill)

  1. bewilderment, confusion, perplexity
  2. daze, giddiness

Declension

Declension of mearbhall (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative mearbhall mearbhaill
vocative a mearbhaill a mearbhalla
genitive mearbhaill mearbhall
dative mearbhall mearbhaill
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an mearbhall na mearbhaill
genitive an mearbhaill na mearbhall
dative leis an mearbhall
don mearbhall 		leis na mearbhaill

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of mearbhall
radical lenition eclipsis
mearbhall mhearbhall not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “merbal(l)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Stifter, David (2019) “An apple a day...”, in Indogermanische Forschungen, volume 124, pages 171–218

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