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Old Irish
Etymology
From ar- + fo- + lám.
Pronunciation
Adjective
irlam (equative erlaimidir, comparative irlamu)
- ready
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 22c10
Is bés trá dosom anísiu cosc inna mban i tossug et a tabairt fo chumacte a feir, armbat irlamu de ind ḟir fo chumacte Dǽi, co·mbí íarum coscitir ind ḟir et do·airbertar fo réir Dǽ.- This, then, is a custom of his, to correct the wives at first and to bring them under the power of their husbands, so that the husbands may be the readier under God’s power, so that afterwards the husbands are corrected and bowed down in subjection to God.
Inflection
| o/ā-stem
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| Singular
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Masculine
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Feminine
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Neuter
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| Nominative
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irlam
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irlam
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irlam
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| Vocative
|
irlaim*
irlam**
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| Accusative
|
irlam
|
irlaim
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| Genitive
|
irlaim
|
irlaime
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irlaim
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| Dative
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irlum
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irlaim
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irlum
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| Plural
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Masculine
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Feminine/neuter
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| Nominative
|
irlaim
|
irlama
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| Vocative
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irlamu
irlama†
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| Accusative
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irlamu
irlama†
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| Genitive
|
irlam
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| Dative
|
irlamaib
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| Notes
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*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative
**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized
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Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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irlam
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-irlam
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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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Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airlam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 497–68