éadáil

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish étáil (gain, profit, wealth).[1] Compare Scottish Gaelic eudail.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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éadáil f (genitive singular éadála, nominative plural éadálacha)

  1. acquisition
  2. profit
  3. wealth
  4. spoils (of war, etc.)
  5. (nautical) salvage

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “étáil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 91
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 33

Further reading

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