barúil

Irish

Alternative forms

  • baramhail (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish baramail (opinion), from Latin parabola (comparison, illustration, likeness) (altered under the influence of samail),[1] from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ, comparison; parable).

Pronunciation

Noun

barúil f (genitive singular barúla, nominative plural barúlacha)

  1. verbal noun of barúil
  2. opinion
    Synonym: tuairim

Declension

Declension of barúil (third declension)
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an bharúil na barúlacha
genitive na barúla na mbarúlacha
dative leis an mbarúil
don bharúil
leis na barúlacha

Derived terms

Verb

barúil (present analytic barúlann, future analytic barúlfaidh, verbal noun barúil, past participle barúilte)

  1. (intransitive) to think, opine, suppose, be of the opinion (that)

Conjugation

Mutation

Mutated forms of barúil
radical lenition eclipsis
barúil bharúil mbarúil

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), “baramail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 168, page 86

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