áil
Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Irish áil (“act of asking; request, wish”), from Proto-Celtic *yālos (“praise, worship”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂-lo- (“zeal”) (compare Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos)).
Noun
[edit]áil f (genitive singular ála, nominative plural ála)
- verbal noun of áil
- (literary) desire, wish
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- is áil le (“to desire, wish”)
Verb
[edit]áil (present analytic áileann, future analytic áilfidh, verbal noun áil, past participle áilte)
- (transitive, literary) request, entreat
- (transitive, literary) desire, wish
Conjugation
[edit]* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis (except an)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]áil m
Mutation
[edit]radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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áil | n-áil | háil | not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “áil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 58
Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- áill (before a dental consonant)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *yālos (“praise, worship”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂-lo- (“zeal”) (compare Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos)).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]áil
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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áil (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-áil |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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