From Middle Irish magarlín m, a diminutive of magarla, magairle (“testicle”). By surface analysis, magairle (“testicle”) + -ín.
magairlín m (genitive singular magairlín, nominative plural magairlíní)
- diminutive of magairle (“testicle”)
- orchid
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) “magairlín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “magarlín”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “magarla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
