different between birdling vs birling

English

Etymology

From bird +? -ling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??d.l??/

Noun

birdling (plural birdlings)

1. A little bird; birdie; a nestling (young bird, baby bird).

Translations

Anagrams

• bridling

English

Verb

birling

1. present participle of birl

Noun

birling (plural birlings)

1. Alternative form of birlinn

Irish

Alternative forms

• beirling (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish beirling, borrowed from Old Norse byrðingr (compare Scottish Gaelic bìrlinn).

Noun

birling f (genitive singular birlinge, nominative plural birlingí)

1. barge
2. (commander's) galley

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "birling" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “beirling”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “birling” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

Manx

Alternative forms

• burling

Etymology

From Middle Irish beirling, borrowed from Old Norse byrðingr (compare Scottish Gaelic bìrlinn).

Noun

birling f (genitive singular birling, plural birleeyn)

1. yacht
2. galley, longship

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “beirling”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language