ailm

From Old Irish ailm (“pine; the letter A in Ogham”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.lʲəmʲ/

ailm f (genitive singular ailme, nominative plural ailmí)

1. (literary) pine (tree of the genus Pinus)
2. the letter A in the Ogham alphabet

• (pine): péine

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ailm”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ailm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Middle Irish , from Old Irish ailm. Cognates include Irish ailm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalam/
• Hyphenation: ailm

ailm f

1. elm
2. (obsolete) the letter A in the Gaelic alphabet

• (elm): leamhan

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• IPA^(key): /ˈalam/
• Hyphenation: ailm

ailm f

1. (nautical) helm; tiller

• failm, falmadair

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ailm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Colin Mark (2003) “ailm”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 17