alltarach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish alltarach (“further, outer, on the other side”), from alltar (“the next world, the hereafter; remote place”). By surface analysis, alltar (“the far country; the other world; remote place, hinterland”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

alltarach (genitive singular masculine alltaraigh, genitive singular feminine alltaraí, plural alltaracha, not comparable)

1. beyond, on the far side

Declension

Declension of alltarach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	alltarach	alltarach	alltaracha
Vocative	alltaraigh		alltaracha
Genitive		alltaraí	alltaracha	alltarach
Dative	alltarach	alltarach; alltaraigh (archaic)	alltaracha
Comparative	(not comparable)
Superlative	(not comparable)

Mutation

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

Further reading

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