priompallán

Irish

Alternative forms

  • priompollán, proimpiollán (obsolete)
  • plumbarlán, primpeallán, proimpeallán, promparlán, triompallán, trompallán, trumpallán[1]

Etymology

Onomatopoeic; suffixed with -án. Compare Ancient Greek βομβυλιός (bombuliós, “buzzing insect”) and English bumble.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /pʲɾʲɑ̃mˠpˠəˈl̪ˠɑ̃ːn̪ˠ/, /tʲɾʲɑ̃mˠpˠəˈl̪ˠɑ̃ːn̪ˠ/ (corresponding to the form triompallán)[2]

Noun

priompallán m (genitive singular priompalláin, nominative plural priompalláin)

  1. dung beetle
  2. dor (humming flying insect such as June bug or bumblebee)

Declension

Declension of priompallán (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative priompallán priompalláin
vocative a phriompalláin a phriompallána
genitive priompalláin priompallán
dative priompallán priompalláin
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an priompallán na priompalláin
genitive an phriompalláin na bpriompallán
dative leis an bpriompallán
don phriompallán 		leis na priompalláin

Derived terms

  • priompalláinín

Mutation

Mutated forms of priompallán
radical lenition eclipsis
priompallán phriompallán bpriompallán

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

References

  1. ^ “priompallán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  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, page 143

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