From Classical Gaelic díghaltas.[2] By surface analysis, díoghail + -tas. Compare Scottish Gaelic dìoghaltas.
díoltas m (genitive singular díoltais)
- vengeance, revenge
- Synonym: agairt
- imir díoltas ar ― to take vengeance on, avenge oneself on
- rún díoltais ― vow or design of vengeance
- retribution
- Synonym: agairt
- reprisal, retaliation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ “díoltas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dígaltas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 81