francbhéarla

Irish

Etymology

From Franc (“Frank”) +‎ béarla (“speech, jargon”), calque of Latin lingua franca (“Frankish language”) (compare Middle Irish frangcbérla (“French”)).

Noun

francbhéarla m (genitive singular francbhéarla, nominative plural francbhéarlaí)

1. lingua franca

Declension

Declension of francbhéarla (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative francbhéarla francbhéarlaí vocative a fhrancbhéarla a fhrancbhéarlaí genitive francbhéarla francbhéarlaí dative francbhéarla francbhéarlaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an francbhéarla na francbhéarlaí genitive an fhrancbhéarla na bhfrancbhéarlaí dative leis an bhfrancbhéarla don fhrancbhéarla leis na francbhéarlaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of francbhéarla

radical	lenition	eclipsis
francbhéarla	fhrancbhéarla	bhfrancbhéarla

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) “francbhéarla”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 franc, frangc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language