liobairne
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From liobar (“something saggy or droopy”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]liobairne f (genitive singular liobairne)
- looseness (of skin)
- (Ulster) disarray, ruin, rack and ruin
- Synonym: raice
- dul chun liobairne ― to go to (rack and) ruin
Related terms
[edit]- liobarna (“droopiness, limpness”)
- ar liobarna (“drooping, hanging limply”)
- liobarnach (“unwieldy, clumsy, floppy”)
References
[edit]- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 97
Further reading
[edit]- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “liobairne”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “liobairne”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN