áil
IrishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Irish áil (“act of asking; request, wish”).
NounEdit
áil
- Only used in is áil le
VerbEdit
áil (present analytic áileann, future analytic áilfidh, verbal noun áileadh, past participle áilte)
- (transitive, literary) request, entreat
- (transitive, literary) desire, wish
ConjugationEdit
* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form
‡ Dependent form
‡‡ Dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis (except an)
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
áil m
MutationEdit
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
áil | n-áil | háil | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
ReferencesEdit
- "áil" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “áil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language