alladh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish allud m (“fame, renown, glory”). Perhaps from the same ultimate source as Scottish Gaelic allail (“noble”).

Noun

alladh m (genitive singular allaidh)

1. fame, renown

Declension

Declension of alladh

First declension

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

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

Mutation

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “alladh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “allud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language