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adhall

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish adall (visit, meeting).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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adhall m (genitive singular adhaill)

  1. heat (condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate) (used primarily of dogs)
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 4:
      ʒā ȷȧgəx aiəl̄ əŕ ə mitš ə n-ām, vērət šī kuən əníš.
      [Dá dtagadh adhall ar an mbitch in am, bhéarfadh sí cuain anois.]
      If the bitch had come into heat in time, she’d have a litter now.
      aiəl̄ əŕ ə mitš. tā n vitš fȳ aiəl̥̄.
      [Tá adhall ar an mbitch. / Tá an bhitch faoi adhall.]
      The bitch is in heat.

Declension

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Declension of adhall (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative adhall
vocative a adhaill
genitive adhaill
dative adhall
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an t-adhall
genitive an adhaill
dative leis an adhall
don adhall

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of adhall
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
adhall n-adhall hadhall t-adhall

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), “1 adall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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