uiríoll

uiríoll

Irish

Alternative forms

• urfhuigheall

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish airḟuigell (“preliminary decision; address, speech”), from fuigell (“judicial pronouncement; discourse”), from Old Irish fugall, fugell.

Noun

uiríoll m (genitive singular uiríll, nominative plural uiríll)

1. (literary) preliminary address (in legal action); preliminary pronouncement, proposal (of agreement, of decision)
2. (law) representative
3. utterance, speech

Derived terms

• uiríollaí (“representor”)

Noun

uiríoll m (genitive singular uiríll, nominative plural uiríll)

1. surplus, superabundance

Derived terms

• uiríoll a dhéanamh ar dhuine (“to give someone a bit of extra food (as a favour)”)

Declension

Declension of uiríoll

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative uiríoll uiríll Vocative a uiríll a uiríolla Genitive uiríll uiríoll Dative uiríoll uiríll

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-uiríoll na huiríll Genitive an uiríll na n-uiríoll Dative leis an uiríoll don uiríoll leis na huiríll

Mutation

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

Further reading

• "uiríoll" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “representation” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.