alladh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish allud m (“fame, renown, glory”). Perhaps from the same ultimate source as Scottish Gaelic allail (“noble”).

Noun

alladh m (genitive singular allaidh)

1. fame, renown

Declension

Declension of alladh (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative alladh vocative a allaidh genitive allaidh dative alladh forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-alladh genitive an allaidh dative leis an alladh don alladh

Mutation

Mutated forms of alladh

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
alladh	n-alladh	halladh	t-alladh

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “alladh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “allud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language