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éadáil

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish étáil (gain, profit, wealth).[1] Compare Scottish Gaelic eudail.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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éadáil f (genitive singular éadála, nominative plural éadálacha)

  1. acquisition
  2. profit
  3. wealth
  4. spoils (of war, etc.)
  5. (nautical) salvage

Declension

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Declension of éadáil (third declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative éadáil éadálacha
vocative a éadáil a éadálacha
genitive éadála éadálacha
dative éadáil éadálacha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an éadáil na héadálacha
genitive na héadála na n-éadálacha
dative leis an éadáil
don éadáil
leis na héadálacha

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of éadáil
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
éadáil n-éadáil héadáil 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

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “étáil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 91
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 33

Further reading

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