àlainn

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See also: alainn and álainn

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish álaind (“lovely, fine, splendid”); *ad-lainn; See loinn. Stokes prefers referring it to áil (“pleasant”), *pagli-, English fair, root pag. But ra-laind (“pleasant”), *ad-pland (Holden).

Pronunciation

Adjective

àlainn (comparative àilne)

  1. beautiful, fair, lovely.
    'S àlainn an gille bàn sin ann...! ― Beautiful is that flaxen-haired lad over there...!

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
àlainn n-àlainn h-àlainn t-àlainn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “àlainn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “àlainn”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “álaind”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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