allaid

Old Irish

Etymology

from Old Irish all (“beyond”, adverb), compare cendaid (“tame, domesticated”) from cend (“head”) and similar pairs like cenntar (“this world here”) and alltar (“the afterlife”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal͈iðʲ/

Adjective

allaid

1. wild, undomesticated

Inflection

i-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	allaid	allaid	allaid
Vocative	allaid
Accusative	allaid	allaid
Genitive	allaid	altae	allaid
Dative	allaid	allaid	allaid
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	altai	altai
Vocative	altai
Accusative	altai
Genitive	allaid* altae
Dative	altaib
Notes	*not when substantivized

Derived terms

• damán allaid

Descendants

• Irish: allaidh
• Manx: oaldey
• Scottish Gaelic: allaidh

Noun

allaid n

1. wild animal

Inflection

As the neuter of the adjective; see above.

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
allaid (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-allaid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “allaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language