eallach
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish ellach (“goods, property, livestock”).[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
eallach m (genitive singular eallaigh, nominative plural eallaí)
- 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 edit
Declension of eallach
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation edit
| 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 edit
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ellach ‘act of joining; act of taking possession’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 ellach ‘cattle’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 79
Further reading edit
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “eallaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 277
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eallach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish ellach (“goods, property, livestock”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
eallach f or m (genitive singular eallacha, plural eallachan or eallaichean)
Usage notes edit
Always masculine in the west of Ross-shire.
Mutation edit
| 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. | |||