adhaltranas

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Irish

Etymology

Variant of adhaltras, from Old Irish adaltras (“adultery”), from adaltair (“adulterer”), from Latin adulter.

Pronunciation

  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈiːl̪ˠt̪ˠɾˠənˠəsˠ/, (older) /ˈɯːl̪ˠt̪ˠɾˠənˠəsˠ/[1]

Noun

adhaltranas m (genitive singular adhaltranais)

  1. adultery
    Synonyms: adhaltraíocht, adhaltras
    adhaltranas a dhéanamh ― to commit adultery

Declension

Declension of adhaltranas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative adhaltranas
vocative a adhaltranais
genitive adhaltranais
dative adhaltranas
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an t-adhaltranas
genitive an adhaltranais
dative leis an adhaltranas
don adhaltranas

Mutation

Mutated forms of adhaltranas
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
adhaltranas n-adhaltranas hadhaltranas t-adhaltranas

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 29

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish adaltrannas m (“adultery”), from adaltair (“adulterer”), from Latin adulter.

Noun

adhaltranas m (genitive singular adhaltranais, no plural)

  1. adultery
    Synonym: adhaltras

Mutation

Mutation of adhaltranas
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
adhaltranas n-adhaltranas h-adhaltranas t-adhaltranas

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

Further reading

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