adhal

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish áel (“fleshfork; trident”).

Noun

adhal m (genitive singular adhail, nominative plural adhail)

1. fork; trident

Declension

Declension of adhal

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative adhal adhail Vocative a adhail a adhala Genitive adhail adhal Dative adhal adhail

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-adhal na hadhail Genitive an adhail na n-adhal Dative leis an adhal don adhal leis na hadhail

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhal	n-adhal	hadhal	t-adhal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “adhal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 áel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language