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Old Irish
Etymology
from Old Irish all (“beyond”, adverb), compare cendaid (“tame, domesticated”) from cend (“head”) and similar pairs like cenntar (“this world here”) and alltar (“the afterlife”).[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
allaid
- wild, undomesticated
Inflection
| i-stem
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| Singular
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Masculine
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Feminine
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Neuter
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| Nominative
|
allaid
|
allaid
|
allaid
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| Vocative
|
allaid
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| Accusative
|
allaid
|
allaid
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| Genitive
|
allaid
|
altae
|
allaid
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| Dative
|
allaid
|
allaid
|
allaid
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| Plural
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Masculine
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Feminine/neuter
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| Nominative
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altai
|
altai
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| Vocative
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altai
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| Accusative
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altai
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| Genitive
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allaid*
altae
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| Dative
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altaib
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| Notes
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*not when substantivized
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Derived terms
Descendants
Noun
allaid n
- wild animal
Inflection
As the neuter of the adjective; see above.
Mutation
Mutation of allaid
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
|
allaid
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-allaid
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1959) “allaid”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume A, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page A-62
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