atall

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See also: at all, átall, and átáll

English

Etymology

Contraction of at all.

Adverb

atall (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete or Ireland) In any degree; at all.
    • 1576, John Foxe, Contemporary Biographies of Archbishop Cranmer‎, Camden Soc.:
      ...he did banquett hym, so that after diner there was conference of both thair armes togethers in divers poyntes nothing atall discrepaunte.
    • 1858, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Hunt's Yachting Magazine:
      What business have you to come here? Go long wid ye — sure I don't want yer atall atall.
    • 1891, The Railroad Trainman‎, The Brotherhood, pages 390–:
      ...if i had done as i should of done i would not tuched the list atall you had no right to send the list where you did and the journals to me that is where I find fault i could do the dirty work someone else do the other is that using me right if it is then i will give in you had no right to send the journals to me atall...

Usage notes

  • In Irish dialect, common as an intensifier in the form "atall, atall", or occasionally "atallatall".

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

Deverbal from atallar.

Pronunciation

Noun

atall m (plural atalls)

  1. shortcut
    Synonym: drecera
  2. a temporary dam or shutoff to divert the flow of a liquid for the purposes of construction or installation

Further reading

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English atoll, from Portuguese atol, from Dhivehi އަތޮޅު (atoḷu).

Noun

atall m (genitive singular ataill, nominative plural ataill)

  1. atoll

Declension

Declension of atall

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative atall ataill
Vocative a ataill a atalla
Genitive ataill atall
Dative atall ataill

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-atall na hataill
Genitive an ataill na n-atall
Dative leis an atall

don atall

leis na hataill

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
atall n-atall hatall t-atall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

atall (masculine and feminine atall, neuter atalt, definite singular and plural atalle)

  1. (pre-1917) alternative form of atal

Anagrams

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *atalaz, whence also Old English atol.

Adjective

atall

  1. fierce
  2. hideous, loathsome

Declension

    Strong declension of atall
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative atall ǫtul atalt
accusative atlan atla atalt
dative ǫtlum atalli ǫtlu
genitive atals atallar atals
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative atlir atlar ǫtul
accusative atla atlar ǫtul
dative ǫtlum ǫtlum ǫtlum
genitive atalla atalla atalla
    Weak declension of atall
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative atli atla atla
accusative atla ǫtlu atla
dative atla ǫtlu atla
genitive atla ǫtlu atla
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative ǫtlu ǫtlu ǫtlu
accusative ǫtlu ǫtlu ǫtlu
dative ǫtlum ǫtlum ǫtlum
genitive ǫtlu ǫtlu ǫtlu

Descendants

  • Norwegian Nynorsk: atal

References

  • “atall”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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