irlam

See also: Irlam

Old Irish[edit]

From ar- +‎ fo- +‎ lám.

irlam (equative erlaimidir, comparative irlamu)

ready
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 22^c10
  Is bés trá dosom anísiu cosc inna mban i tossug et a tabairt fo chumacte a feir, armbat irlamu de ind ḟir fo chumacte Dǽi, co·mbí íarum coscitir ind ḟir et do·airbertar fo réir Dǽ.
  This, then, is a custom of his, to correct the wives at first and to bring them under the power of their husbands, so that the husbands may be the readier under God’s power, so that afterwards the husbands are corrected and bowed down in subjection to God.

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	irlam	irlam	irlam
Vocative	irlaim* irlam**	irlam
Accusative	irlam	irlaim
Genitive	irlaim	irlaime	irlaim
Dative	irlum	irlaim	irlum
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	irlaim	irlama
Vocative	irlamu irlama†
Accusative	irlamu irlama†
Genitive	irlam
Dative	irlamaib
Notes	modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative *modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

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