umhlóid

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Irish

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish umallóit, from Old Irish umaldóit, from Latin humilitās.[1]

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

umhlóid f (genitive singular umhlóide, nominative plural)

  1. submission, obedience
  2. humility
  3. (Ulster) pliability
Declension
Declension of umhlóid (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative umhlóid
vocative a umhlóid
genitive umhlóide
dative umhlóid
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an umhlóid
genitive na humhlóide
dative leis an umhlóid
don umhlóid

Further reading

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

umhlóid

  1. (archaic, dialectal) third-person plural future of umhlaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of umhlóid
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
umhlóid n-umhlóid humhlóid not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “umaldóit, omaldóit, umallóit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Loth, Joseph (1913) “L’Accent dans le gaëlique du Munster”, in Revue de Phonétique (in French), volume 3, page 324
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 294, page 104