spéirling

• speirling

From Old Irish spéirling (“violence, strife, contention”).

spéirling f (genitive singular spéirlinge, nominative plural spéirlingí)

1. (thunder-)storm
2. violence, strife; contest, fight

• (thunderstorm): léidearnach thoirní f, stoirm thoirní f

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