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English
Noun
ollam (plural ollams)
- Alternative form of ollamh
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
olla + -am
Pronunciation
Noun
ollam m (plural ollams)
- (collective) cooking pots
Further reading
Latin
Noun
ōllam
- accusative singular of ōlla
Old Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From oll (“great, vast”).
Noun
ollam m
- A master in a particular trade or skill.
- A professor
- the highest rank of fili, or a title of the highest member of any group.
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Adjective
ollam
- Alternative form of ellam
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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| ollam
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unchanged
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n-ollam
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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
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ollam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ellam, ullam, ollam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “ollam”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page ollamh