acalaí
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish aclaid(e) (“acolyte”), from Late Latin acolythus, from Ancient Greek ἀκόλουθος (akólouthos, “follower, attendant”).
Noun
editacalaí m (genitive singular acalaí, nominative plural acalaithe)
Declension
editDeclension of acalaí
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Mutation
editIrish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
acalaí | n-acalaí | hacalaí | t-acalaí |
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) “acalaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “acolyte”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 aclaid(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “acalaí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm