abcolips

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• abcoilps

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin apocalypsis, from Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις (apokálupsis, “revelation”), from ἀπό (apó, “away”) and καλύπτω (kalúptō, “to cover”).

Noun

abcolips f

1. (Christianity) apocalypse

Mutation

Mutation of abcolips

radical	lenition	nasalization
abcolips (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	abcolips	n-abcolips

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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