aibhleog

• aibhle f

Ultimately from a form of Old Irish oíbell (“a spark or flame of fire”), suffixed with -óg (diminutive).

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɛvʲlʲaɡ/^[1]

aibhleog f (genitive singular aibhleoige, nominative plural aibhleoga)

1. coal (of fire), brand, ember

• aibhleog bheo (“live coal”)
• aibhleog dhearg (“ember”)
• aibhleog dhóite (“cinder, dead coal”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aibhleog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 oíbell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language