eilit

• eilid

From Old Irish elit, ailit (“doe, hind”), from Proto-Celtic *elantī, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic eilid.

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɛhlʲədʲ/^[1] (as if spelled eithlid).

eilit f (genitive singular eilite or eilte, nominative plural eilití or eilte)

1. doe, hind (female deer)
2. (figurative, derogatory) tall, thin, badly dressed woman

   Synonym: feadóg

Alternative declension:

• eilit mhaol f (“hornless doe”)
• craiceann eilite m (“doeskin”)
• lao eilite m (“fawn”)

• “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
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “elit, ailit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language