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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish arale, alaile, from Proto-Celtic *aralyos (“other”) (compare Middle Welsh arall), a dissimilated reduplication of *alyos (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos.
Determiner
araile (literary)
- another, the other
- Synonym: eile
- some, a certain
- Synonym: áirithe
Pronoun
araile (literary)
- a certain one, someone/something
- each other
- Synonym: a chéile
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- “araile”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 aile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language