acaldam

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• acaldaim, acallaim, acallam, accaldam

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaɡal͈daβ̃]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *adglādīmā, verbal noun of *ad-glādīti. By surface analysis, ·accald(athar) +‎ -em.

Noun

acaldam f (genitive acaldmae)

1. verbal noun of ad·gládathar
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15^a20

     Ní foí⟨l⟩sitis déicsin a gnúsa íar mbid dó oc accaldim Dé, oc tindnacul recto dó.

     They would not have endured the beholding of his face after he had been conversing with God, at the bestowing of the law to him.

2. Act of addressing, conversation, colloquy

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	acaldamL, acaldaim, acallaim	—	—
Vocative	acaldamL, acaldaim, acallaim	—	—
Accusative	acaldaimN, accaldim, acallaim	—	—
Genitive	acaldmaeH	—	—
Dative	acaldaimL, accaldim, acallaim	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: agallamh
• Manx: taggloo
• Scottish Gaelic: agallamh

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

·acaldam

1. first-person plural present subjunctive prototonic of ad·gládathar

Mutation

Mutation of acaldam

radical	lenition	nasalization
acaldam (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-acaldam

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “acallam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language