daltas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish daltus. By surface analysis, dalta +‎ -as.

Noun

daltas m (genitive singular daltais, nominative plural daltais)

1. (military) cadetship
2. Synonym of daltachas (“fosterage; pupilage; discipleship”)

Declension

Declension of daltas (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative daltas daltais vocative a dhaltais a dhaltasa genitive daltais daltas dative daltas daltais forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an daltas na daltais genitive an daltais na ndaltas dative leis an daltas don daltas leis na daltais

Mutation

Mutated forms of daltas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
daltas	dhaltas	ndaltas

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “daltas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “daltus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “daltas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

Swedish

Verb

daltas

1. inflection of dalta:
   1. infinitive passive
   2. present passive