áladh

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish álad m (“wound”), from Proto-Celtic *aglotus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ-lo- (“distress”).

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈalˠu/, /ˈal̪ˠu/

Noun

áladh m (genitive singular álaidh, nominative plural álaidh)

1. wound
2. lunge, thrust (of spear, etc.)

Declension

Declension of áladh (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative áladh álaidh vocative a álaidh a áladha genitive álaidh áladh dative áladh álaidh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-áladh na hálaidh genitive an álaidh na n-áladh dative leis an áladh don áladh leis na hálaidh

Mutation

Mutated forms of áladh

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
áladh	n-áladh	háladh	t-áladh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “áladh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 álad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 81