Noun: balla
Gender: Masc
Forms without Article
| Singular Nominative | balla |
| Singular Genitive | balla |
| Plural Nominative | ballaí |
| Plural Genitive | ballaí |
Forms with Article
| Singular Nominative | an balla |
| Singular Genitive | an bhalla |
| Plural Nominative | na ballaí |
| Plural Genitive | na mballaí |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like balla
acra,
aerfhráma,
aga,
aguisín,
aidhnín,
airgeadra,
aisfhreagra,
alga,
altra,
amchomhartha,
anraith,
aoisghrúpa,
aspairín,
asphrionta,
babhla,
babhta,
balla,
banana,
bangharda,
banna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Irish *balla, from Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaz, *wallą (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”). See: Middle English Nouns '
wal', Old English Nouns '
weall', Latin Nouns '
vallum'.
Translations
wall, to enclose by surrounding with walls