éadáil

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish étáil (“gain, profit, wealth”).[1] Compare Scottish Gaelic eudail.

Pronunciation

Noun

éadáil f (genitive singular éadála, nominative plural éadálacha)

  1. acquisition
  2. profit
  3. wealth
  4. spoils (of war, etc.)
  5. (nautical) salvage

Declension

Declension of éadáil (third declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative éadáil éadálacha
vocative a éadáil a éadálacha
genitive éadála éadálacha
dative éadáil éadálacha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an éadáil na héadálacha
genitive na héadála na n-éadálacha
dative leis an éadáil
don éadáil 		leis na héadálacha

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of éadáil
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
éadáil n-éadáil héadáil not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “étáil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 91
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 33

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