araile

Irish

Alternative forms

• aroile, araill, roile (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish arale, alaile, from Proto-Celtic *aralyos (“other”) (compare Middle Welsh arall), a dissimilated reduplication of *alyos (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos.

Determiner

araile (literary)

1. another, the other

   Synonym: eile

2. some, a certain

   Synonym: áirithe

Pronoun

araile (literary)

1. a certain one, someone/something
2. each other

   Synonym: a chéile

Derived terms

• agus araile (“et cetera”)

Mutation

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

Further reading

• “araile”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 aile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language