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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish elit, ailit (“doe, hind”), from Proto-Celtic *elantī, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic eilid.
Pronunciation
Noun
eilit f (genitive singular eilite or eilte, nominative plural eilití or eilte)
- doe, hind (female deer)
- (figurative, derogatory) tall, thin, badly dressed woman
- Synonym: feadóg
Declension
Alternative declension:
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| eilit
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n-eilit
|
heilit
|
not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
Further reading
- “eilit”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “eilit”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 284
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eilit”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “elit, ailit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language