From Proto-Celtic *aleti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi. Cognate with Middle Welsh alu (“bear young”), Latin alō (“I feed, nourish”), Old English alan (“to nourish”).
The future stem has eb- extracted from reduplicated futures like ebarthi (“will grant it”) (from Proto-Celtic *ɸiɸrāti) and ·ebla¹ (“will drive”) (from Proto-Celtic *ɸiɸlāti) and reinterpreted as a future marker.[1]
ailid (conjunct ·ail, verbal noun altram)
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Abs. | ailit | ailtir | ||||||
| Conj. | ·ail | ·alar | |||||||
| Rel. | ailes | ailte | |||||||
| Imperfect indicative | |||||||||
| Preterite | Abs. | alt | altae | ||||||
| Conj. | ·alt | ·altammar | ·altatar | ·alt | |||||
| Rel. | altae | ||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ro·n-ailt (nasalized relative) | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Future | Abs. | ebeltair | |||||||
| Conj. | ·ebla, ·ebela | ||||||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Conditional | ·ebelad | ·ebeltae | |||||||
| Present subjunctive | Abs. | ||||||||
| Conj. | |||||||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Past subjunctive | ·almais | ||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | altram | ||||||||
| Past participle | ailte, altae | ||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| ailid (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-ailid |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||