cú allaid
Middle Irish
Descendants
- Irish: cú allaidh
Old Irish
Noun
cú allaid m (genitive unattested, nominative plural coin altai)
- wolf
- Poems of the Codex St. Pauli, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 293, line 6
- Ma rom·thoicther-sa inso rop ith ⁊ mlicht ad·cear; manim·rothcaither ropat choin altai ⁊ ois ⁊ imthecht slebe ⁊ oaic Féne ad·cear.
- If this is destined for me, may it be corn and milk I see; if it is not destined for me, may it be wolves, deer, wandering on the mountain, and the warriors of the Féini I see. [Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus does not translate the occurrences of ro·toicther]
- Poems of the Codex St. Pauli, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 293, line 6
Inflection
| Masculine n-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | cú allaid | coin altai | coin altai |
| Vocative | cú allaid | coin altai | cona altai |
| Accusative | coin n-allaid | coin altai | cona altai |
| Genitive | con allaid | con altae, con allaid | con n-altae, con n-allaid |
| Dative | coin allaid, cú allaid | conaib altaib | conaib altaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| cú allaid | chú allaid | cú allaid pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cú”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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