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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish aclaid(e) (“acolyte”), from Late Latin acolythus, from Ancient Greek ἀκόλουθος (akólouthos, “follower, attendant”).
Noun
acalaí m (genitive singular acalaí, nominative plural acalaithe)
- (Christianity) acolyte
Declension
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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acalaí
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n-acalaí
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hacalaí
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t-acalaí
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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) “acalaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “acolyte”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 aclaid(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “acalaí” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.