adhall

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish adall (“visit, meeting”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈəiəl̪ˠ/

Noun

adhall m (genitive singular adhaill)

1. heat (condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate) (used primarily of dogs)
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 4:

     ʒā ȷȧgəx aiəl̄ əŕ ə mitš ə n-ām, vērət šī kuən əníš.

     [Dá dtagadh adhall ar an mbitch in am, bhéarfadh sí cuain anois.]

     If the bitch had come into heat in time, she’d have a litter now.

     tā aiəl̄ əŕ ə mitš. tā n vitš fȳ aiəl̥̄.

     [Tá adhall ar an mbitch. / Tá an bhitch faoi adhall.]

     The bitch is in heat.

Declension

Declension of adhall (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative adhall vocative a adhaill genitive adhaill dative adhall forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-adhall genitive an adhaill dative leis an adhall don adhall

Derived terms

• faoi adhall (“in heat, on heat”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of adhall

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhall	n-adhall	hadhall	t-adhall

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) “adhall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “aḋall”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 4
• “adhall”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “adhall”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “adhall”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024