úll

See also: ull, -ull, and 'ull

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish uball, from Old Irish ubull[1] (compare Scottish Gaelic ubhal), from Proto-Celtic *abūl (compare Welsh afal), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl (compare English apple, Lithuanian obuolỹs).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uːl̪ˠ/[2]

Noun

úll m (genitive singular úill, nominative plural úlla)

  1. apple
  2. (anatomy) ball-and-socket joint
  3. globular object, ball

Declension

Declension of úll (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative úll úlla
vocative a úill a úlla
genitive úill úll
dative úll úlla
úllaibh (archaic)
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-úll na húlla
genitive an úill na n-úll
dative leis an úll
don úll 		leis na húlla

Derived terms

  • alt úll is cuas m (“ball and socket joint”)
  • anlann úll m (“apple sauce”)
  • fia-úll m (“crab-apple”)
  • leann úll m (“cider”)
  • pióg úll f (“apple pie”)
  • rua-úll m (“russet”)
  • úll an chromáin m (“hip-joint”)
  • úll an mhadra rua m (“tutsan”)
  • úll caithne m (“arbutus-berry”)
  • úll claímh m (“pommel of sword”)
  • úll dorais m (“door-knob”)
  • úll fiáin m (“crab-apple”)
  • úll géar m (“cooking-apple”)
  • úll gráinneach m (“pomegranate”)
  • úll luaidhe m (“lead ball”)
  • úll milis m (“eating-apple”)
  • úll na brád m (“Adam's apple”)
  • úll na haithne m (“forbidden fruit”)
  • úll na huillinne m (“elbow-joint”)
  • úll na leise m (“hip-joint”)
  • úll na scornaí m (“Adam's apple”)
  • úll óir m (“golden apple, precious thing”)
  • úll práis m (“brass ball”)
  • úll scéithe m (“boss of shield”)
  • úll soirb m (“sorb-apple”)
  • úlla clis m pl (“juggler's balls”)
  • úlla prátaí m (“potato-apples”)
  • úllach (“bearing apples”, adjective)
  • úllachán m (“little apple”)
  • úllgharraí m (“orchard”)
  • úllghlas (“apple-green”, adjective)
  • úllmhaighdeog f (“ball-pivot”)
  • úllóg f (“apple charlotte”)
  • úllord m (“orchard”)
  • úllsclóin f (“ball-swivel”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of úll
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
úll n-úll húll t-úll

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), “uball, ubull”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 212, page 80

Further reading

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