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eireaball

eireaball

Irish

Alternative forms

earball
iorball
rioball
ruball

Noun

eireaball m ‎(genitive singular eireabaill, nominative plural eireabaill)

tail (of animal, comet, etc.)
(tail) end
(music) tail, stem (of note)

Declension

Declension of eireaball

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	eireaball	eireabaill
Vocative	a eireabaill	a eireaballa
Genitive	eireabaill	eireaball
Dative	eireaball	eireabaill

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an t-eireaball	na heireabaill
Genitive	an eireabaill	na n-eireaball
Dative	leis an eireaball don eireaball	leis na heireabaill

Synonyms

(music): eireaball nóta

Derived terms

Terms derived from eireaball

eireaball cait ‎(“cat's-tail, reed-mace”)
eireaball capaill ‎(“horsetail”)

eireaball cóiméid ‎(“tail”) (of a comet)
eireaball dreige ‎(“trail of meteor”)

gearreireaballach ‎(“short-tailed; curtailed, scanty”)
péist eireabaill ‎(“tailworm”) (in cattle)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eireaball	n-eireaball	heireaball	t-eireaball
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"eireaball" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Franz Nikolaus Finck, 1899, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, 217.
“erball” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.