allaid

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Old Irish

Etymology

From al (“beyond”), compare cennais (“tame, domesticated”) from cenn (“head”) and similar pairs like cenntar (“this world here”) and alltar (“the afterlife”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

allaid

  1. wild, undomesticated
  2. (nominalized, neuter) wild animal

Inflection

i-stem
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative allaid allaid allaid
vocative allaid
accusative allaid allaid
genitive allaid altae allaid
dative allaid allaid allaid
plural masculine feminine/neuter
nominative altai altai
vocative altai
accusative altai
genitive allaid*
altae
dative altaib

*not when substantivized

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: allaidh
  • Manx: oaldey
  • Scottish Gaelic: allaidh

Mutation

Mutation of allaid
radical lenition nasalization
allaid
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) 		unchanged n-allaid

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

References

  1. ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1959) “allaid”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien (in French), volume A, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page A-62

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