cuibhreann

Irish

FWOTD – 7 July 2020

From Old Irish cuibrend.^[1]

cuibhreann m (genitive singular cuibhrinn, nominative plural cuibhrinn)

part, portion
enclosed field
- 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
  Nuair a chuaidh sé giobhta eile, chonnaic sé cuibhreann talmhan ⁊ scota mór caorach ann, ⁊ bhí siad ramhar, feolmhar, beathaiste, gidh nach robh an féar acht go han-lom.
  When he went a little farther, he saw an enclosed field of ground with a flock of sheep in it, and they were fat, fleshy, and in prime condition, though the grass was very bare.

Declension of cuibhreann (first declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an cuibhreann	na cuibhrinn
genitive	an chuibhrinn	na gcuibhreann
dative	leis an gcuibhreann don chuibhreann	leis na cuibhrinn

Mutated forms of *cuibhreann*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
cuibhreann	chuibhreann	gcuibhreann

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

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuibrenn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 324, page 113

From Old Irish cuibrend.

cuibhreann m (genitive singular cuibhrinn, plural cuibhreannan or cuibhrinnean)

Mutation of *cuibhreann*
radical	lenition
cuibhreann	chuibhreann

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