baile mór

See also: baile mòr

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

baile mór m (genitive singular baile mhóir, nominative plural bailte móra)

  1. large town, city
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 197:
      Chuaidh sí go dtí uncail di a bhí i n‑a shagart san bhaile mhór agus fuair sí uaidh sórt éide agus giúrléidí beaga éigin eile.
      She went to an uncle of hers who was a priest in the city and from him she got a variety of vestments and some other small accessories.

Declension
Declension of baile mór

Fourth declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative baile mór bailte móra
Vocative a bhaile mhóir a bhailte móra
Genitive baile mhóir bailte móra
Dative baile mór bailte móra

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an baile mór na bailte móra
Genitive an bhaile mhóir na mbailte móra
Dative leis an mbaile mór
don bhaile mhór		 leis na bailte móra

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
baile mór bhaile mór mbaile mór
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 59

Further reading
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