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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish álad m (“wound”), from Proto-Celtic *aglotus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ-lo- (“distress”).
Pronunciation
Noun
áladh m (genitive singular álaidh, nominative plural álaidh)
- wound
- lunge, thrust (of spear, etc.)
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| áladh
|
n-áladh
|
háladh
|
t-áladh
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “áladh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 álad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 81