Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Irish athléim.[1] By surface analysis, ath- +‎ léim.

Alternative forms edit

Verb edit

athléim (present analytic athléimeann, future analytic athléimfidh, verbal noun athléim, past participle athléimthe)

  1. to rebound (bound or spring back from a force)
  2. to jump back
Conjugation edit

Noun edit

athléim f (genitive singular athléime, nominative plural athléimeanna)

  1. rebound (recoil of an object bouncing off another)
  2. a jump back
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 23:
      də lēm n̥ fȧr əŕ xlai agəs hic n̥ klai; hug šē alēm agəs hānig šē sl̄ān ō ʒørtū.
      [Do léim an fear ar chlaí agus thit an claí; thug sé athléim agus tháinig sé slán ó ghortú.]
      The man jumped on a stone wall and the stone wall fell; he made a jump back and came away safe from injury.
  3. verbal noun of athléim
Declension edit

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms edit

Verb edit

athléim

  1. first-person singular present indicative/imperative of athléigh

Mutation edit

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

References edit

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “aithléimm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading edit