preabaire

Irish

Etymology

preab +‎ -aire

Noun

preabaire m (genitive singular preabaire, nominative plural preabairí)

  1. bouncing, dashing person
  2. (zoology) springtail

Declension

Declension of preabaire (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative preabaire preabairí
vocative a phreabaire a phreabairí
genitive preabaire preabairí
dative preabaire preabairí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an preabaire na preabairí
genitive an phreabaire na bpreabairí
dative leis an bpreabaire
don phreabaire
leis na preabairí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of preabaire
radical lenition eclipsis
preabaire phreabaire bpreabaire

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

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