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áille

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See also: aille, aillé, and -aille

Irish

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Alternative forms

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  • áilne (obsolete spelling; both noun and adjective)

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish áilde, áilne, áille (beauty), from álaind (beautiful) (modern álainn).

Noun

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áille f (genitive singular áille)

  1. beauty
Declension
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Declension of áille (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative áille
vocative a áille
genitive áille
dative áille
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an áille
genitive na háille
dative leis an áille
don áille
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  • álainn (beautiful, adjective)

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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áille

  1. inflection of álainn (beautiful):
    1. genitive singular feminine
    2. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural
    3. comparative degree

Mutation

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Mutated forms of áille
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
áille n-áille háille not applicable

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

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