allaid
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From al (“beyond”), compare cendaid (“tame, domesticated”) from cend (“head”) and similar pairs like cenntar (“this world here”) and alltar (“the afterlife”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]allaid
Inflection
[edit]| singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | allaid | allaid | allaid |
| vocative | allaid | ||
| accusative | allaid | allaid | |
| genitive | allaid | altae | allaid |
| dative | allaid | allaid | allaid |
| plural | masculine | feminine/neuter | |
| nominative | altai | altai | |
| vocative | altai | ||
| accusative | altai | ||
| genitive | allaid* altae | ||
| dative | altaib | ||
*not when substantivized
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| allaid (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-allaid |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1959) “allaid”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume A, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page A-62
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “allaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language