antalóp

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English antelope, from Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops).

Noun

antalóp m (genitive singular antalóip, nominative plural antalóip)

1. antelope (African and Asian animal; its meat)

Declension

Declension of antalóp (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative antalóp antalóip vocative a antalóip a antalópa genitive antalóip antalóp dative antalóp antalóip forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-antalóp na hantalóip genitive an antalóip na n-antalóp dative leis an antalóp don antalóp leis na hantalóip

Derived terms

• antalóp ceithre-adharcach (“four-horned antelope”)
• antalóp saigeach (“saiga”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of antalóp

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
antalóp	n-antalóp	hantalóp	t-antalóp

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

Further reading

• “antelope”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024