From Old Irish erlabrae, airlabrae.[1] By surface analysis, ur- + labhra.
urlabhra f (genitive singular urlabhra, nominative plural urlabhraí)
- faculty of speech, speech, utterance, expression
- manner of speech, diction
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airlabrae or dil.ie/2160”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 25