Literally“eye of a snare”, fromMiddle Irishrib(“snare”), conflated withruibe(“(individual) hair”) (now spelledribe).
súilribe f (genitive singularsúile ribe,nominative pluralsúile ribe)
- snare(trap, especially one made from a loop of wire)
- Synonyms:dol,gaiste
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- “súil-ribe”, inHistorical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “rib”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “ribe”, inFoclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ribe”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931)Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page30
