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aill

See also: àill and áill

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish all (“cliff”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *ɸallom, from Proto-Indo-European *pels- (“stone”).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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aill f (genitive singular aille, nominative plural aillte or alltracha)

  1. (geography) cliff, precipice
    stuaic aille ― the tip of a cliff
    ar bharr na haille ― on the top of the cliff
    Aillte an Mhothair ― the Cliffs of Moher
    Is é airde na haille sin, chuala mise, trí chéad troigh.
    The height of that cliff, I have heard, is three hundred feet.
    Is é ainm na haille sin Aill na nGlasóg.
    The name of that cliff is Glassan Rock.

Declension

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Declension of aill (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative aill aillte
vocative a aill a aillte
genitive aille aillte
dative aill aillte
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an aill na haillte
genitive na haille na n-aillte
dative leis an aill
don aill 		leis na haillte

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of aill
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aill n-aill haill not applicable

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 all”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “fallo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 120–21

Further reading

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Middle Irish

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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aill

  1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of aile

Mutation

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Mutation of aill
radical lenition nasalization
aill unchanged n-aill

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

Old Irish

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Etymology 1

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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aill

  1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of aile

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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aill

  1. Alternative spelling of áill

Mutation

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Mutation of aill
radical lenition nasalization
aill
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) 		unchanged n-aill

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

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