atall
English edit
Etymology edit
Contraction of at all.
Adverb edit
atall (not comparable)
- (obsolete or Ireland) In any degree; at all.
- 1576, John Foxe, Contemporary Biographies of Archbishop Cranmer[1], Camden Soc.:
- ...he did banquett hym, so that after diner there was conference of both thair armes togethers in divers poyntes nothing atall discrepaunte.
- 1858, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Hunt's Yachting Magazine:
- What business have you to come here? Go long wid ye — sure I don't want yer atall atall.
- 1891, The Railroad Trainman[2], The Brotherhood, pages 390–:
- ...if i had done as i should of done i would not tuched the list atall you had no right to send the list where you did and the journals to me that is where I find fault i could do the dirty work someone else do the other is that using me right if it is then i will give in you had no right to send the journals to me atall...
Usage notes edit
- In Irish dialect, common as an intensifier in the form "atall, atall", or occasionally "atallatall".
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
atall m (plural atalls)
- shortcut
- Synonym: drecera
- a temporary dam or shutoff to divert the flow of a liquid for the purposes of construction or installation
Further reading edit
- “atall” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Irish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English atoll, from Dhivehi އަތޮޅު (atoḷu), possibly from Prakrit *𑀲𑀁𑀢𑀻𑀞 (*saṃtīṭha), from Sanskrit *संतीर्थ (saṃtīrtha, “level ford”).
Noun edit
atall m (genitive singular ataill, nominative plural ataill)
Declension edit
Declension of atall
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
atall | n-atall | hatall | t-atall |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “atall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “atoll” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “atall” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Adjective edit
atall (masculine and feminine atall, neuter atalt, definite singular and plural atalle)
Anagrams edit
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *atalaz, whence also Old English atol.
Adjective edit
atall
Declension edit
Strong declension of atall
Weak declension of atall
Descendants edit
- Norwegian Nynorsk: atal
References edit
- “atall”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press