birling

English

Verb

birling

1. present participle and gerund of birl

Noun

birling (plural birlings)

1. Alternative form of birlinn

Irish

Alternative forms

• beirling (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish beirling, borrowed from Old Norse byrðingr (compare Scottish Gaelic bìrlinn).

Noun

birling f (genitive singular birlinge, nominative plural birlingí)

1. barge
2. (commander's) galley

Declension

Declension of birling (second declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative birling birlingí vocative a bhirling a bhirlingí genitive birlinge birlingí dative birling birlingí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an bhirling na birlingí genitive na birlinge na mbirlingí dative leis an mbirling don bhirling leis na birlingí

Mutation

Mutated forms of birling

radical	lenition	eclipsis
birling	bhirling	mbirling

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “birling”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “beirling”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “birling”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm