eilit

Irish

Alternative forms

• eilid

Etymology

From Old Irish elit, ailit (“doe, hind”), from Proto-Celtic *elantī, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic eilid.

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɛhlʲədʲ/ (as if spelled eithlid).

Noun

eilit f (genitive singular eilite or eilte, nominative plural eilití or eilte)

1. doe, hind (female deer)
2. (figurative, derogatory) tall, thin, badly dressed woman

   Synonym: feadóg

Declension

Declension of eilit (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative eilit eilití vocative a eilit a eilití genitive eilite eilití dative eilit eilití forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an eilit na heilití genitive na heilite na n-eilití dative leis an eilit don eilit leis na heilití

Alternative declension:

Declension of eilit (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative eilit eilte vocative a eilit a eilte genitive eilte eilte dative eilit eilte forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an eilit na heilte genitive na heilte na n-eilte dative leis an eilit don eilit leis na heilte

Derived terms

• eilit mhaol f (“hornless doe”)
• craiceann eilite m (“doeskin”)
• lao eilite m (“fawn”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of eilit

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eilit	n-eilit	heilit	not applicable

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

Further reading

• “eilit”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “eilit”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 284
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eilit”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “elit, ailit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language