aileach

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ailech, collective of ail (“boulder, rock”).

Noun

aileach m (genitive singular ailigh)

1. (literary) rocky place, rock

Declension

Declension of aileach

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative aileach Vocative a ailigh Genitive ailigh Dative aileach

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-aileach Genitive an ailigh Dative leis an aileach don aileach

Etymology 2

Noun

aileach f sg

1. genitive singular of ail (“stone, rock”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aileach	n-aileach	haileach	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aileach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ailech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language