Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English fryen +‎ -áil, from Old French frire, from Latin frīgō (to roast, fry).[2] The original f (preserved in the alternative form friáil) was reinterpreted as the lenition of p.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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priáil (present analytic priálann, future analytic priálfaidh, verbal noun priáil, past participle priáilte)

  1. (Ulster, otherwise obsolete) to fry

Conjugation

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Noun

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priáil f (genitive singular priála)

  1. (Ulster, otherwise obsolete) verbal noun of priáil

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
priáil phriáil bpriáil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “friáil, priáil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “priáil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 367, page 125