aillse
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish aillsiu (“cancer”).
Noun edit
aillse f (genitive singular aillse, nominative plural aillsí)
Noun edit
aillse
Usage notes edit
- A number of Irish dictionaries (beginning in the 1700s by confusing several different Irish and Scottish Gaelic words, and spreading by copying) listed "fairy" and "delay, heedlessness, neglect" as other meanings of this word, but they are ghost senses and do not exist.[1]
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
aillse | n-aillse | haillse | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ an article in Scottish Gaelic Studies 3-4 (1929), page 54, says: "Aillse, "a fairy," appears first in Lhuyd (p. 426), who marks it as a Scottish word. The next lexicographer to include it was Shaw, who explains it as "a fairy, a diminutive creature." O'Reilly, as usual, took over the word from Shaw. Coneys copied O'Reilly, at the same time providing the word with a plural, aillseacha, and quoting the phrase, Ni lugha orm aillseacha ciaróg 'na thu. He thus mixed up two distinct words, the Scottish aillse, and the Irish aillseach, 'a chafer, ear-wig'."
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish aillsiu (“sore, tumour, abscess”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aillse f (genitive singular aillse)
Mutation edit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
aillse | n-aillse | h-aillse | t-aillse |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “aillse”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “aillsiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language