arbyl

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish erball (compare Irish eireaball, Scottish Gaelic earball).

Noun

arbyl m (genitive singular arbyl, plural arbyllyn)

1. (anatomy) tail

   Synonym: famman

Derived terms

• caillagh veg yn arbyl (“long-tailed tit”)

Further reading

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