iomrall

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish imroll (“a badly-aimed shot or cast, a miss; straying, error, mistake”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʊmˠəɾˠəl̪ˠ/

Noun

iomrall m (genitive singular iomraill)

  1. aberration, error
  2. (literary) missed throw, miss

Declension

Declension of iomrall (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative iomrall
vocative a iomraill
genitive iomraill
dative iomrall
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an t-iomrall
genitive an iomraill
dative leis an iomrall
don iomrall

Derived terms

  • ar iomrall, in iomrall (“astray, in error”)
  • coiscéim iomraill (“false step”)
  • eolas iomraill (“mistaken information”)
  • gan iomrall (“unerring; undoubtedly”)
  • iarracht iomraill (“muff”)
  • iomrall aimsire (“anachronism”)
  • iomrall aithne (“mistaken identity”)
  • iomrall breithiúnais (“error of judgment”)
  • iomrall ceartais (“miscarriage of justice”)
  • iomrall céille (“mental aberration”)
  • iomrall cuntais (“miscount”)
  • iomrall seachadta (“misdelivery”)
  • iomrall sféarúil (“spherical aberration”)
  • iomrall súl (“optical illusion”)
  • iomrall tuisceana (“misunderstanding”)
  • iomrallach (“straying, wide (of mark); mistaken”, adjective)
  • urchar iomraill (“missed, random, shot”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of iomrall
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
iomrall n-iomrall hiomrall t-iomrall

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

  • iomaral, iomrol
  • iormall, ioramall (metathesized)

Etymology

From Old Irish imroll (“a badly-aimed shot or cast, a miss; straying, error, mistake”).

Pronunciation

  • (Uist) IPA(key): /ˈɪməɾəl̪ˠ/[1]

Noun

iomrall m (genitive singular iomraill, plural iomrallan)

  1. error, mistake
  2. straying, wandering

Mutation

Mutation of iomrall
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
iomrall n-iomrall h-iomrall t-iomrall

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

References

  1. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh

Further reading

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