From Old Irish oblóirecht f (“jugglery”), from oblóir, ablóir, oblaire m (“juggler, rhymester; the tenth or lowest class of poet”). By surface analysis, abhlóir (“buffoon, fool; boor; confused, bewildered, person”) + -acht.
abhlóireacht f (genitive singular abhlóireachta)
- (act of) clowning, playing the fool; buffoonery
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “abhlóireacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oblóirecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “abhlóireacht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
