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eallach

Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish ellach (“goods, property, livestock”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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eallach m (genitive singular eallaigh, nominative plural eallaí)

  1. cattle
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 22:
      ḱērd ə ńīs nə strænšəŕī šin ən̄šó? ȷīln̥̄ šēd ȧl̄əx.
      [Céard a níos na strainséirí sin anseo? Díolann siad eallach.]
      What do those strangers do here? They sell cattle.
    • 1906, E. C. Quiggin, A Dialect of Donegal (overall work in English), Cambridge University Press, § 253, page 91:
      lʹeʃ ə NʹαLαχ
      [leis an eallach]
      with the cattle

Declension

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Declension of eallach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative eallach eallaí
Vocative a eallaigh a eallaí
Genitive eallaigh eallaí
Dative eallach eallaí

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-eallach na heallaí
Genitive an eallaigh na n-eallaí
Dative leis an eallach

don eallach

leis na heallaí

Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ellach ‘act of joining; act of taking possession’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ellach ‘cattle’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 79

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish ellach (“goods, property, livestock”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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eallach f or m (genitive singular eallacha, plural eallachan or eallaichean)

  1. burden, armful, load
  2. trick
  3. battle, charge
  4. bracket
  5. herd
  6. cattle given as tocher or dot

Usage notes

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Always masculine in the west of Ross-shire.

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eallach n-eallach h-eallach t-eallach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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