carball

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkaɾˠəbˠəl̪ˠ/

Noun

carball m (genitive singular carbaill, nominative plural carbaill)

  1. palate, hard palate, roof of the mouth
  2. gum (flesh around the teeth)
    Synonym: drandal
  3. jaw
    Synonym: giall
  4. boulder
    Synonym: bollán

Declension
Declension of carball

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative carball carbaill
Vocative a charbaill a charballa
Genitive carbaill carball
Dative carball carbaill

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an carball na carbaill
Genitive an charbaill na gcarball
Dative leis an gcarball

don charball

 leis na carbaill

Derived terms
  • carballach
  • carballán

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
carball charball gcarball
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • “carball”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “carball”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
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