allaidh

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Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish allaid (“wild, undomesticated”).

Adjective

allaidh (genitive singular feminine allaidhe, plural allaidhe, comparative allaidhe)

  1. Alternative form of allta (“wild”)
Declension
Declension of allaidh
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative allaidh allaidh allaidhe
vocative allaidh allaidhe
genitive allaidhe allaidhe allaidh
dative allaidh allaidh allaidhe
Comparative níos allaidhe
Superlative is allaidhe

Etymology 2

Noun

allaidh m

  1. genitive singular of alladh

Mutation

Mutated forms of allaidh
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
allaidh n-allaidh hallaidh not applicable

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

References

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish allaid (“wild, undomesticated”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

allaidh

  1. wild, fierce

Derived terms

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “allaidh”, 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), “allaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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