allaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From al (“beyond”), compare cennais (“tame, domesticated”) from cenn (“head”) and similar pairs like cenntar (“this world here”) and alltar (“the afterlife”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈal͈ɨðʲ]

Adjective

allaid

  1. wild, undomesticated
  2. (nominalized, neuter) wild animal

Inflection

i-stem
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

Descendants

  • Irish: allaidh
  • Manx: oaldey
  • Scottish Gaelic: allaidh

Mutation

Mutation of allaid
radical lenition nasalization
allaid
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)		 allaid n-allaid

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

References

  1. ^ 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

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