duilliúr

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish duillebar (“foliage”).[2] By surface analysis, duille (“leaf”) +‎ -úr.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /dʲəˈlʲuːɾˠ/[3] (as if spelled dilliúr)
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈd̪ˠɪl̠ʲuːɾˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈd̪ˠɪl̠ʲuɾˠ/

Noun

duilliúr m (genitive singular duilliúir)

  1. leaves
  2. foliage
    Synonym: clúmh
  3. greenery

Declension

Declension of duilliúr (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative duilliúr
vocative a dhuilliúir
genitive duilliúir
dative duilliúr
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an duilliúr
genitive an duilliúir
dative leis an duilliúr
don duilliúr

Mutation

Mutated forms of duilliúr
radical lenition eclipsis
duilliúr dhuilliúr nduilliúr

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

References

  1. ^ “duilliúr”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “duillebar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 84

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