doirb

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

doirb f (genitive singular doirbe, nominative plural doirbeacha)

  1. small insect or worm, especially one that lives in water; water beetle

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
doirb dhoirb ndoirb
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. doirb”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “darbh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 100

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