mearbhall

Irish

Alternative forms
  • mearathal

Etymology

From Middle Irish merball,[1] from Old Irish merfall (synchronically mer (“crazy”) + sel (“a turn”)), from Proto-Celtic *meroswelos.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmʲaɾˠəwəl̪ˠ/

Noun

mearbhall m (genitive singular mearbhaill, nominative plural mearbhaill)

  1. bewilderment, confusion, perplexity
  2. daze, giddiness

Declension
Declension of mearbhall

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mearbhall mearbhaill
Vocative a mearbhaill a mearbhalla
Genitive mearbhaill mearbhall
Dative mearbhall mearbhaill

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an mearbhall na mearbhaill
Genitive an mearbhaill na mearbhall
Dative leis an mearbhall

don mearbhall

 leis na mearbhaill

Derived terms

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mearbhall mhearbhall not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “merbal(l)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Stifter, David (2019) “An apple a day...”, in Indogermanische Forschungen, volume 124, pages 171–218

Further reading
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