ellach

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈel͈ax]

Noun

ellach m (genitive ellaig)

1. verbal noun of in·loing
2. joining, union
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19^c20

     Má nudub·feil i n‑ellug coirp Críst, adib cland Abrache amal ṡodin, et it sib ata chomarpi Abracham.

     If you pl are in the union of the body of Christ, you are Abraham’s children in that case, and it is you who are Abraham’s heirs.

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ellach	—	—
Vocative	ellaig	—	—
Accusative	ellachN	—	—
Genitive	ellaigL	—	—
Dative	elluchL, ellugL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ellach	unchanged	n-ellach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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