Old Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈerʲəlk/, [ˈerʲelk]

Noun edit

erelc f

  1. ambush
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 30a3
      Amal nád n-airigther ⁊ nád fintar a ndu·gníther hi suidi, sic ba in ḟortgidiu ⁊ ba hi temul du·gníth Saul cona muntair intleda ⁊ erelca fri Dauid.
      As what is done in this is not perceived and discovered, so it was covertly and it was in darkness that Saul with his people was making snares and ambushes against David.

Declension edit

Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative erelcL erilcL erelcaH
Vocative erelcL erilcL erelcaH
Accusative erilcN erilcL erelcaH
Genitive erilceH erelcL erelcN
Dative erilcL erelcaib erelcaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation edit

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

Further reading edit