Irish
Etymology
From pobal (“people; community”) + scoil (“school”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pobalscoil f (genitive singular pobalscoile, nominative plural pobalscoileanna)
- community school
Declension
Declension of pobalscoil (second declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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pobalscoil
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pobalscoila
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| vocative
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a phobalscoil
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a phobalscoila
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| genitive
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pobalscoile
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pobalscoil
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| dative
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pobalscoil
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pobalscoila
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Mutation
Mutated forms of pobalscoil
| radical
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| pobalscoil
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phobalscoil
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bpobalscoil
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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) “pobalscoil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “pobalscoil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “pobalscoil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025